MOSCOW, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- The goal of the reform on Russian armed forces has primarily been attained this year, said Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov here on Tuesday.

    "I think we have generally attained the goal of a new image, higher mobility and combat readiness of the armed forces," the Itar-Tass news agency quoted Serdyukov as saying at a meeting of the Defense Ministry Board.

    "I cannot say we are fully satisfied with our work. We just say that the armed forces' reform continues in the right way," he added.

    Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in his Nov. 12 annual address to the Federal Assembly said that the armed forces would receive in 2010 some 30 ground-based and sea-based ballistic missiles, five Iskander missile systems, some 300 armored vehicles, 30 helicopters, 28 combat planes, three nuclear submarines, and one corvette combat ship.

    "These and other measures will make the armed forces' modern, mobile and capable of combat," said Medvedev.

    The president also ordered the latest equipment of automatic control centers and digital communication to the servicemen by 2012.

    Meanwhile, Russian Chief of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov said at the Tuesday meeting that "the measures implemented in 2009helped create a new system of combat readiness of the armed forces, based on reduced time frame to prepare the standby formations and units to fulfilling designated assignments, from 24 hours to one hour."

    Medvedev on Oct. 26 at a conference on the defense industries also voiced dissatisfaction with the pace of the development and modernization of Russian defense sector.

    "Over the past few years, a lot of money has been invested in the modernization and development of the defense sector. However, the results are not high, I would say," he said.

    Shortly after a brief war with Georgia, Russia unveiled military reform plans in September 2008 aimed at modernizing and improving the efficiency of Russian troops as well as their standard of living.