Specifics and trends of development of the military goods market
This article notes that the military goods market is a monopsony, where the state plays a key role in determining its basic parameters and characteristics. It is shown that for the Russian Federation the world market of weapon production is one of the few sectors to successfully compete with foreign manufacturers of high-tech products. The author argues that the use of marketing tools in the military goods market is appropriate, but limited; and political preferences impose significant restrictions on it. It is shown that governmental and legal regulation determine the most important parameters and that high switching costs display the directions of military-technical cooperation.