Russia has the upper hand in arms race with the West, minister says
"I don't want to boast, but I can say that we began to gain and picked up the pace of production earlier than Western countries," a minister handling weapon production said.
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage and the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 blasts off from a launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, August 11, 2023.(photo credit: Roscosmos/Vostochny Space Centre/Handout via REUTERS)ByREUTERSUpdated:
