MOSCOW: Nearly six months into the Ukraine war, in which his military has performed worse than expected, President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia is ready to sell state-of-the-art weapons and develop military technology to allies around the world.

The war has so far proved to be an ineffective showdown for Russia's arms industry, with its forces pulling out of Ukraine's two largest cities and slow progress in the eastern provinces at great cost.

Putin insisted the Russian arms were several years ahead of the competition on Monday, speaking at an arms show outside Moscow.

According to him, Russia values ​​its close ties with Latin America, Asia and Africa and is ready to provide its allies with a full range of weapons, including small arms, armored vehicles, artillery, fighters and drones. Almost all of them have participated in many real combat missions.

He claimed that Russia's proposal included high-precision weapons and robotics.

Many of them are years, if not decades, ahead of their counterparts in other countries, and they outperform them in terms of tactical and technological capabilities.

Russia is second only to the US in terms of annual arms exports, accounting for about a fifth of the market.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, only four countries -- India, China, Egypt and Algeria -- accounted for 73% of those sales between 2017 and 2021.

According to Western military analysts, Russia's struggles in Ukraine against a much smaller enemy could undermine Putin's sales pitch.

According to Ruth Dearmond, senior lecturer in the Department of War Studies at King's College London, "With the collapse of economic ties with the West, Russia is even more dependent on the arms trade than before, so it is not surprising that Putin Looking forward to promoting them to more and more non-Western customers."

The main issue for them is that Russia's war against Ukraine has been disastrous for the reputation of the Russian military, and that their actions have been very poor advertising for their arsenal.

Asked which Russian weapon system performed worst in Ukraine, retired US general Ben Hodges cited US defense officials' estimates that some of Russia's precision-guided missiles had failure rates as high as 60%.

Hodges, a former commander of US military forces in Europe, continued: "Western sanctions imposed on Russia also raised questions about the ability to source components and maintain the weapons it sells."

As a potential customer, "I am very concerned about the quality of the equipment and the potential of the Russian Federation industry to support it," he said.

According to Sergei Chemezov, the head of state-owned defense group Rostec, arms exports have not been affected.
“We have already signed contracts worth over one trillion rubles ($16 billion) this year with foreign customers.

According to Russian news agencies, Chemezov said on stage that the amount "exceeds some annual figures for the past 10 years."

Russia has suffered several significant setbacks as a result of Ukraine's effective use of US-supplied weapons, particularly the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS).

These include an explosion at an airbase in the Crimean peninsula, which Russia captured last week, destroying at least eight planes on the ground, according to satellite images.

Despite this, Putin claimed that the Russian military and its representatives in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine were successfully fulfilling all their objectives.

"They are freeing the land of the Donbass step by step," he said.

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