Another possible, but less profitable variant - sale of reduced arms abroad as scrap metal. Absence in Russia of enough of the equipment for are sharp large metal subjects of type of the case of the ship, a submarine or the tank, and also the specialised non-polluting enterprises where this operation could be carried out, leads to that the former military ships are on sale to foreigners on dollar for a unit of weight. and then when products from it come back to us in the form of purchases on import, it is necessary to pay for the same weight already ten times more.

In the press, for example, it was informed that the American company ' Pepsiko ' has bought from us 17 submarines (on 150 thousand dollars everyone), and also a cruiser, the anti-submarine ship and a destroyer. As a result it was possible to gain some millions dollars - the sum which is absolutely incommensurable to expenses for building of these courts.

Many western firms show persevering desire to get our tanks - too on scrap metal. Some of these firms, especially German, were ready that is called, ' to accept under the inventory ' all tanks deduced from the East Europe countries, to cut them at the enterprises, to melt, and at the same time and to check the begun process of unilateral disarmament.

Sale on combat material scrap metal - rather inefficient way of conversion of the saved up military potential. As experts specify, in each tank all components of the table of Mendeleyev contain. Cutting of arms at the enterprises of the western firms already in itself gives them the big economic benefit as the sorted scrap metal has considerably a big price in the market.