{"id":6519,"date":"2012-02-28T18:12:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T01:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6519"},"modified":"2012-02-28T18:11:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T01:11:35","slug":"russia-to-modernize-weapons-of-mass-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6519","title":{"rendered":"Russia to Modernize Popular Weapon of Mass Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russia To Modernize Iconic Kalashnikov Assault Rifle <\/strong><br \/>\n28 February, 2012 &#8211; Radio Free Europe<\/p>\n<p>Russia has announced plans to modernize the Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle, the mainstay of the Russian Army and weapon of choice for paramilitaries and gangsters around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told parliament that the &#8220;modernized&#8221; weapon will have &#8220;detachable equipment, such as an optical sight and a lamp.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rogozin said the army would also receive a new pistol by the end of the year to replace the semi-automatic Makarov, another weapon from the 1940s and now a Cold War relic.<\/p>\n<p>Rogozin said that a planned $690 billion modernization of Russia&#8217;s armed forces includes the addition of new submarines and aircraft by 2020. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/russia_to_modernize_iconic_kalashnikov\/24499095.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D6519&amp;text=Russia+to+Modernize+Popular+Weapon+of+Mass+Destruction&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia To Modernize Iconic Kalashnikov Assault Rifle 28 February, 2012 &#8211; Radio Free Europe Russia has announced plans to modernize the Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle, the mainstay of the Russian Army and weapon of choice for paramilitaries and gangsters around the world. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told parliament that the &#8220;modernized&#8221; weapon will have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6519#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2588],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6526,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519\/revisions\/6526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}