Volfovich on Belarusian defence industry: focus on advanced models with 100% localisation

A meeting of the Board of the State Authority for Military Industry under the leadership of its Chairman Dmitry Pantus was held today, February 7th, at Minsk’s AGAT-Control Systems – Managing Company of Geoinformation Control Systems Holding. The main topic of the meeting is to sum up the results of the activities of the department and its subordinate organisations over the past year and to define the tasks to ensure their stable development for 2025. Speaking to journalists, State Secretary of Belarus’ Security Council Aleksandr Volfovich noted that the State Authority for Military Industry has done a lot in 2024, and modern equipment and weapons clearly show that our industry is moving forward at a steady pace.

“Based on the geopolitical, military and political situation that is currently taking shape not only around our country, but also in the world as a whole, we see that the collective West is now, unfortunately, relying on militarisation. This is because political and economic sanctions do not produce the results that our neighbours set out to achieve. Today, we see how contracts for the supply of modern, mainly American military equipment are being concluded in neighbouring countries, which, naturally increases the military threat to our country. In order to secure Belarus and provide strategic deterrence, we are now obliged to do everything possible to ensure that our Armed Forces meet all modern requirements and standards and are equipped with the most advanced weapons and military equipment,” Mr. Volfovich added.

The State Secretary of the Security Council noted that it’s expensive, and sometimes impossible to buy foreign weapons under the sanctions, so Belarus relies on its own enterprises, “The focus is made on the creation of our own modern samples with 100 percent localisation. Almost all the samples presented at the board meeting are made from Belarusian and Russian components. And all of this will be incorporated into our Armed Forces, which, of course, will significantly increase their combat potential. Our Armed Forces are compact, but they are equipped with modern samples of Belarusian-made weapons and military equipment, which are known outside our country, and our opponents know and study them.”