Ռազմատեխնիկական քաղաքականության կատարելագործումը որպես պետության պաշտպանունակության ապահովման հանգուցային ուղղություն / Improvement of military-technical policy as a key direction in ensuring the national defense capability

Abstract

The state’s military-technical policy (MTP) is targeted at the establishment of a scientific, technological and production base for designing and developing Armament, Military and Special Equipment (AMSE). The article suggests a few methodological approaches to the improvement of MTP aimed at ensuring the neutralization of the dangers and threats to the state security, and to national defense capability. In each state the level, quality and choice of the directions in the military-technical policy are to a certain degree influenced by the position the state holds in the world and in the given region, its pretensions, interstate relations, its sci-tech and production engineering capabilities. Nowadays, the significance and impact of different types of uncertainties upon shaping the MTP of large and small states have drastically increased. This is first and foremost stipulated by the consequence that the unipolar model of global dominance gradually fades into the past. Hence, the reconstruction of the world community interaction pattern has its significant impact on the substantiation and selection of the development directions of the means of armed conflict. It is stipulated by largescale changes taking place in numerous spheres. As for the small states’ activity in the direction of the military-technical policy designing and efficiency evaluation, it is noted that those two are connected with essential extra difficulties. That’s why it is necessary to: clearly identify the modern requirements of the armed struggle, the physico-geographical conditions of the given region, the complex of military and military-technical tasks, their correlation, the financial and economic capabilities of the state, etc. It is proposed that a state armament program be drafted with the account of limitations of allocated material, financial, time, human (intellectual) and other resources. More importantly, the evaluation of the feasibility and effectiveness of the armament program should be carried out on the basis of the methodological provisions of the military-economic analysis, using the “time – costs – effectiveness” criterion. When applying this criterion, the combat efficiency of military formations, the economic efficiency of defense enterprises and the military-economic efficiency of weapon samples and systems should be comprehensively considered. In other words, it is not necessary to strive only for cost reduction, it is necessary to ensure an increase in combat capabilities per unit of cost, subject to the mandatory observance of time and other constraints.