原苏联的国防工业分布广泛、集中控制,由成品组装厂、部件制造厂、材料生产厂以及武器研究、发展、试验、鉴定设施组成庞大的军工生产体系。随着苏联的解体,某些新独立的国家正在前苏联军事设施的基础上,建立起自己的军工体系。原苏联拥有3000—5000家军工厂和700—1000万的劳动大军,是世界最大的国防工业基地,其中 The former Soviet Union’s defense industry was widely distributed and controlled centrally. It consisted of a large-scale military production system consisting of a product assembly plant, a component manufacturing plant, a material production plant, and weapons research, development, testing, and appraisal facilities. With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, certain newly independent countries are building their own military systems on the basis of the former Soviet military facilities. The Soviet Union had 3,000-5,000 military factories and 70-1000 million labor force, and it was the largest defense industrial base in the world.