UkrOboronProm has begun work on a program to develop the defense industry, which provides for the re-equipment of the Armed Forces with the latest foreign weapons.
This was reported in the press service of the state concern.
"The concern together with foreign manufacturers of armaments and military equipment is already working on the establishment of service and repair centers for the main range of equipment to be supplied to Ukraine, and later - the organization of licensed production of new weapons and equipment for the Armed Forces of Ukraine." - noted in UkrOboronProm.
According to the general director of the concern Yuri Gusev, the program of development of the defense industry "is based on the rearmament of the Armed Forces with the latest foreign weapons".
"Thus, the defense-industrial complex should become the core of Ukraine's developed economy," Gusev added.
The program is being worked on by the state concern, state authorities, as well as the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, people's deputies and the National Academy of Sciences.
It will be recalled that the other day the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny and the Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Millie discussed the transition of the Armed Forces from Soviet weapons and equipment to NATO models.
The United States has begun additional training for Ukrainian soldiers at U.S. military installations in Germany.