A moment of happiness

The government is not going to reduce the state defense order yesterday Vladimir Putin visited the Russian aircraft -building corporation of the MIG, where he held the first meeting of the Council of General and Chief Designers, leading scientists and specialists in the field of high -tech sectors of the economy under the chairman of the Russian Federation, which was created in October 2008. “I just really wanted people who generate the main ideas that organize this process to feel a direct connection with the country's leadership,” the Russian prime minister began a meeting.

The main good news for the meetings gathered in the meeting room (mainly these were the general director and general designers of the military -industrial complex) was that the government decided not to reduce state defense orders.

"Yesterday, after a thorough analysis of the possibilities of the budget, we made, in fact, the final decision in fundamental not to reduce the state defense order," said Vladimir Putin.

In 2009, its amount will exceed 1 trillion rubles, and in the three -year budget it will amount to almost 4 trillion rubles. The decision not to reduce the defense order is fundamentally important for many Russian enterprises. So, according to the chief of the KB of the MIG of the MIG Aleksey Litvinovich, the MiG-29 aircraft, which are delivered to the Russian army, are currently being modernized as part of the state defense order. By the end of the year, about 20 new MiGs will be delivered. According to Putin, a state order for the purchase of MiG-29SMT aircraft (generation "4+") is 17.3 billion rubles. But in general, in the near future, according to Litvinovich, a new regiment of 28 new aircraft will be created.

Vladimir Putin promised Migu additional help. As part of the recovery of the company from the federal budget, he said, 15 billion rubles were allocated to increase the authorized capital. Of these, the company will receive 11 billion rubles in the first quarter of 2009. Money needs money, since the debt of the enterprise today is 44.8 billion rubles, and the net loss for 2008 is 11 billion rubles.

In addition, Russia is going to fight for the right to supply to India a party of 126 MiG-35 generations "4 ++". "We will win this tender, I am 100%sure," said Alexei Litvinovich. However, the competitors of the mig are serious. This is the Lockhid Martin Corporation (USA), Boeing (USA), DASSO-BRAGE (France), Saab (Sweden), European aerospace and defense company EADS (EU). According to Litvinovich, the first cars within the framework of the tender will enter India in August 2009.

However, the Russian advanced technique, as it turns out for the past few years, is only exported and does not remain in Russian aircraft. In the case of the MiG-35, the plane may appear in the Russian troops, according to Litvinovich, only four years later. And even then in the case of winning an Indian tender.

02/11/2009 / Andrey Biryukov, the material was published in the "newspaper" No. 24 dated 12.02.2009.