Vladimir Putin has boasted that Russian weapons are 'decades' ahead of Western rivals' in a speech at an arms expo in Moscow.
Delegations from more than 70 countries are attending Army-2022 to take advantage of good deals on Russian kit.
Allies and buyers of Russian hardware have expressed concern as Putin's tanks, warships and planes continue to drop like flies in Ukraine.
Putin vowed: '[We] are ready to offer our allies the most modern types of weapons, from small arms to armored vehicles and artillery to combat aviation and unmanned aerial vehicles.
'Almost all of them have been used more than once in real combat operations.
'Many of them are years, if not decades, ahead of their foreign counterparts.
'And in terms of tactical and technical characteristics they are significantly superior to them.'
He was speaking nearly six months into Russia's war in Ukraine, where Moscow has suffered repeated setbacks and heavy losses.
Putin also spoke positively of the war despite a flurry of large-scale setbacks including the apparent destruction of a key mercenary group's HQ with American HIMARS missiles.
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