"As for last year’s exports, you probably already know, the plan was slightly exceeded in spite of all objective difficulties. We hope that this level remains for the next 2-3 years," Fomin said on Sunday, TASS wrote.
He added that he hopes the level remains at $15 billion.
As UNIAN reported earlier, world military expenditure totaled almost $1.7 trillion in 2015, an increase of 1% in real terms from 2014, according to new figures from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
Read alsoSIPRI: World military spending resumes upward courseThe United States remained by far the world's biggest spender in 2015, despite its expenditure falling by 2.4% to $596 billion. Among the other top spenders, China's expenditure rose by 7.4% to $215 billion, Saudi Arabia's grew by 5.7% to $87.2 billion—making it the world's third-largest spender—and Russia's increased by 7.5% to $66.4 billion.
