Take more, throw further

Still, this is a wonderful idea-to give candidates to the successors of the post of first deputy prime ministers, to organize regular events for them, during which they would demonstrate themselves to the electorate. Willy-nilly, they are forced to speak some words, formulate some ideas. As a result, the level of competence and understanding of the problems is found, which is designed to oversee the first vice.

From this point of view, each meeting of the military-industrial commission (and now she is going to weekly-clearly at the request of the Ivanovo PR managers) gives us something special. Last time, Ivanov told about the unprecedented united system of the anti -missile, anti -axm and air defense of the fifth generation. Now in a remarkable way he explained to the heads of military-industrial enterprises, how the reform and restructuring of the defense industry will undergo.

I must say that recently Sergey Ivanov has already reported that in the coming years, 5 trillion rubles will be or our army will be lined with the latest aircraft, tanks and missiles to the defense order. Not a word, however, without explaining how this miracle will happen. Indeed, according to Deputy Ivanov for the Military-Industrial Commission Vladislav Putilin, the wear of the fixed assets of the defense industry enterprises reached 70 percent, and the average age of working for more than 55 years. That is, there is no one to produce and nothing.

Now it turns out that Sergei Ivanov knows how to solve this problem.

Stage first. Having received a defense order, enterprises “walk the fat, so to speak, from the execution of the weapons program, from seriality, mass procurement.” And after two to three years, according to Ivanov, they will become profitable.

Then the second stage will begin. The federal target program for reforming the Russian defense complex is launched, which pulls half a trillion rubles. Moreover, according to Ivanov, “a significant part of the federal funds for this program will be sent from extra -budgetary sources, that is, funds themselves. This amount under the program is no less than 201 billion rubles, that is, 40 percent of the total FCP. ” Ivanov explained that "the main foundation of these funds is the target deductions of the enterprises themselves from profit."

Wonderful economic know-how. A kind of mixture of the Bolshevik surplus and the experience of Baron Munhgauzen, who pulled himself out by the hair from the swamp. What gives reason to Sergei Ivanov to hope for an increase in profit? A significant increase in defense order? However, it is not clear how these volumes will be mastered by enterprises that have long developed the resource of equipment. However, even if everything was in order with the equipment, the idea that the defense industry enterprises, with their long production cycle, are able to start making a profit in two or three years, making military products, is a clean utopia.

I must say that Russia is not the first country that is faced with a similar problem. In the early 80s, after the almost 10-year decline, the Reaganov administration sharply increased the allocations for the purchase of weapons-and resulted in only an increase in military products. (I remind you, by the way, that, while still the Minister of Defense, Sergei Ivanov more than once set to constant rise in the cost of OPC products.) The industry was not able to quickly rebuild. As a result, it was necessary to create a complex system of state financing of the re -equipment of industry and at the same time control over its implementation (and now thousands of civilian auditors are working in the Pentagon).

However, this is possible when the project is implemented by two subjects - the state and private corporation with clearly defined rights and obligations. In the Russian case, instead of private firms that seem to be under state control, we have conglomerates of enterprises driven into the so -called holdings. In the absence of a serious audit, which only the customer can carry out - that is, the Ministry of Defense (for which the department needs thousands of civilian specialists), it is almost impossible to determine the size of the profit. Not to mention to force directors to spend them on the rearmament of enterprises.

Thus, extremely complex and long -term, for decades, the work is replaced by programs that boil to the elementary - take more, throw further, rest while flying. Such recommendations have been fed up for a long time. She will respond to them the way she can - theft and hidden sabotage.