Russia signed $5.7 billion in contracts to export military products in 2012, $2.4 billion more than in the first half of 2011, President Vladimir Putin said Monday.
The Russian defense industry's portfolio of export orders is $43 billion dollars, Putin added at a meeting of the commission on military-technical cooperation in Sochi, RIA-Novosti reported.
"Overall, the portfolio of export orders is about $43 billion, which means that our defense and related businesses will receive additional resources for development [and] modernization," he said.
(MT)