In addition, acceptance means equipping armed forces at a specific level in accordance with NATO standards, the expansion of command, informational, and communications systems, and so forth. That means further technological backwardness, and probably cadre weakening and the reduction of combat readiness as well, so that only after a longer period will the armies of the countries around us be in a situation to implement any radically new changes in their strategy. The first condition imposes the necessity of technical modernization and the introduction of new devices and improvement of existing devices for discovering and identifying danger in time to undertake effective protective and preventive measures. We have those cadres. Regardless of all the problems the VJ has had in the past years, we have filled a very high level of positions in this arm's formations.
Distinct backwardness is evident in appropriate equipment for contemporary armies.
Under difficult economic circumstances in the past period, we succeeded in developing and adopting 10 devices, and we are beginning to equip units and institutions. We are on the road to soon solving the development and adopting the production of as many devices from the field of protection, detection, measurement, and decontamination. In the coming period, we are planning intensive activity in introducing devices of high reliability, safety, and productivity. You are entirely correct. It was the only arm center at this location in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.