According to military expert Viktor Litovkin, this initiative will strengthen the armed forces and increase their combat capability.
“This makes it possible to attract people with a higher engineering education, with a specialized secondary education, who have extensive experience, to the army.
First of all, these are those positions that are associated with the operation of high-tech equipment, where knowledge of computers is required, where the ability to control artificial intelligence is required, etc.
Such positions are in demand in the army and the involvement of such people in the armed forces will be useful, ”Litovkin is sure.
A similar point of view is shared by the military publicist Vladislav Shurygin.
He recalled that "the main people who have combat experience in previous wars" fall into the category of forty plus.
“Accordingly, in this case, the signing of such a contract allows them to return to the service, earn money and repay their debt to their homeland,” the RT interlocutor concluded.
Earlier it became known that the President of Russia signed a law on the abolition of the upper limit of the age limit for the conclusion of the first contract for military service.