Funding for Russian defense industry program to amount to $26.2 billion

MOSCOW, August 23. /TASS/. Russia’s United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation (UIMC) will use a domestically engineered chassis to create a military command post for top Russian military officials, the manufacturer told TASS on Tuesday.

The project, codenamed Cortege, is an automobile platform boasting cross country capacity, being developed at Russia’s Central Research and Development Automobile and Engine Institute, or NAMI.

"It will be a fundamentally new vehicle, a civilian configuration of a business class off-road vehicle carrying high-tech control and communication equipment. That part of the work is being done by the Sistemprom concern in cooperation with the automobile and engine institute," the UIMC said.

The on-board equipment will provide a full set of telecommunication services, including satellite communication, IP-telephony and videoconferencing.