Fleet craces

The problem of lifting cranes for servicing strategic, multi -purpose atomic submarines remains extremely sharp, and therefore the "potential possibility of another serious disaster" remains. This is stated in a letter to the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense Andrei Nikolaev, sent on September 30 to the head of the armaments of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation-commander of the Minister of Defense Alexei Moskovsky.

The State Duma has been trying to pay attention to both the government and the military department to the critical situation, which has developed as a result of the wear of special -crafts serving strategic nuclear submarines. Back in 2000, a parliamentary request was sent to the chairman of the government, Mikhail Kasyanov, in which it was about the need to urgently allocate additional funds to the budget for the construction and repair of special scrains. Back in 1999, the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Vladimir Kuroyedov, notified the Ministry of Defense: “The navy has developed a critical situation with the technical readiness of pneumatic cranes performing work on overloading strategic weapons. Currently, the Navy has a hundred-tone cranes-14 units (KS-8362) and forty-tone cranes (KS-5363). Of them, only 3 are working out of them. KS-8362 cranes KS-5363. And the problem arose for the simple reason that the Odessa Istrian plant, the only manufacturer of special scanns for the Navy in the CIS, stopped receiving money from Russia for already completed orders. The natural desire of Ukrainians was interpreted for their work in Russia as a threat to the country's defense capacity and a contract with Istrin was torn. However, they did not find a suitable enterprise within the Russian Federation. For two years, the cranes of the Russian Navy were not supplied, and the old ones were not repaired. Only after the Duma request under the budget 2000 was allocated for the production and repair of cranes 250 million rubles (at 500 million required).

Three years passed ... Those same 250 million rubles did not reach Odessa. And the hardworking Odessa residents by this time built 19 cranes for Russia, of which 8 have already been sent to Kuroyedov’s economy. Meanwhile, the Russian order is 75% of the total order of the enterprise. No payment of the order - there is no salary. Yes, a lot that is not. For a Ukrainian enterprise, partnership from the Russian Ministry of Defense turns in continuous losses.

The Duma Defense Committee, which recently examined this problem together with the director of Istrian, came to the conclusion that "the main reason for delaying the calculations of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation with LLC" Istrian "for the delivered and manufactured products is a long -term lawsuit between the HUVBIF of the Ministry of Defense and the Navy - at the expense of what means and who, the Ministry of Defense or the Navy, must continue to pay for these products and continue Financing throughout the state defense order.

While the Ministry of Defense is bickering with the subordinate head of the Navy, the situation is this: atomic submarines are suitable for the berths of the weapons bases, their nuclear ammunition is loaded and unloading the cranes, whose wear exceeds 10 years and for whose operation the manufacturer is fundamentally does not want to bear responsibility. Swear, say, the equipped missile is not there (some kind of piece of iron in the tap torn)-and the consequences, on their scale, can be the most catastrophic. Moreover, experts do not exclude that the catastrophe will be nuclear.

The story, of course, is amazing. What other examples are needed to demonstrate the full nonsense of the military department in nuclear security matters. What was supposed to go in the order, like a clock, what was supposed to be protected from failures and all kinds of fools and attackers, has been knocked out with noise and a bang for several years - parliamentary requests are written, articles in the press are published, appeals to the government and the president are going on ... and not a single official “landed” on a bench on the defendants. No one is even oral suggestion. And where millions have sunk, no one is also interested in anyone - neither the Prosecutor General, nor the Accounts Chamber, nor the Ministry of Finance. And, interestingly, even if it flips, no one will be baptized.

Wonderland.