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The article presents the author's views on mobility in the present-day combat readiness system in Russia. He sees it as the essence of current dynamic processes in military affairs and as a notion to carry out strategic deployments. He states that mobile forces must be composed of attack, controlling and supporting subsystems. He believes that organizationally, large mobile strategic formation is good, and that the mobility factor in combat employment of Russia's armed forces will grow.

The article informs that the core of the Russian Federation Defense Ministry's military-technical policy in the operation and maintenance of arms and military equipment (AME) is ensuring the combat readiness of AME as the key component of the combat system of the Armed Forces. It takes into account the general systemic and branch of service priorities of its development; introduces advanced and economical resource saving procedures and technologies for the operation, maintenance, and disposal of AME and new information and analysis systems and technologies to control these processes on different levels.