Grudinin and Rogozin: the strange trail in the sky

Fans statements in the style of "I told you so!", wipe keyboard. Can not recall that last year we had a article written in a very rosy after the first (and last) flight of the Il-112. Was. No one to deny it and not going to, as well as to argue on the topic of what it was.

It's simple: finally in the sky you pulled the long-suffering and so needed transport aircraft. And that's all for now.

But let's go back a little in the timeline. Only in 2017-the year when the Senator's defense industry Dmitry Rogozin and Director of the program on the Il-112 Dmitry Savelyev race talked about what prospects open.
Perspectives on the words was quite. The initial batch in June-July 2017, and was to consist of two aircraft. First off in June, second in July, tested, and on the Voronezh aircraft plant begins to build two aircraft per month.


Perspective? Prospect. Especially when you consider how need transport aircraft army. The point here is that you do not need this, "not having analogues in the world", just need a NEW plane. Just because veterans "Ana" is already on its last breath. So do not live how many Ukrainian planes serve. All these An-124, An-26, An-22, an-12, An-72 – all the past of our aircraft, which sooner or later will have at least something to change.

Just because a new aircraft from the design Bureau "Antonov" to us in the coming decades to see, and might not see ever again.

However, the plane in which badly needed the Russian army, the Il-112V as scheduled did not take off.
In June 2017, the chief designer of JSC "Il" Nikolay Talikov said the postponement of the trials.
In July 2018, there was information that the project Il-112 generally can close, because it was found fatal errors in the design.
However, the then head of the company "Il" Alex D. Rogozin said that the serial production of the Il-96 and Il-112V will start at the Voronezh aircraft plant in 2020.

Well, by the way, the year 2020 is already in full swing, you can set Rogozin questions like "Where's the aircraft?" But not in a hurry.

Remember how happy we were in March last year, when the Il-112V is still made its first flight. Remember? And we remember. Happy.

The sky of the Il-112 is still risen. At what cost to the crew is unknown, but the first flight was till last because it was stated that at the completion of the project will require up to a year, but because the runway VASO in any case dismantled for overhaul.

And then began...

A month later, in April of 2019 started "optimization".
The result was optimized (i.e., dismissed) the Director General of aviation Aleksei Rogozin. We do not comment at all, but it turned out that Rogozin is just the beginning.
The Following is dismissed (in July) were 78 senior managers and key employees "Ilyushin". Deputy Director General for Economics, human resources, legal issues and marketing. Not the most useful in the development of aircraft employees, but nonetheless.

And then the miracles began "optimization". Was dismissed by the leading specialists of the project Il-112, Il-276 and Il-96.
In fact, people put on the street, but on the street almost everybody expected. "Boeing" was taken wholesale, groups. Irkutsk, Kazan, Perm – well, all noted in Voronezh, and I must say, few people went without extraction. People actually fled to where the promised job and salary.

But the main part to seize "Boeing", in fact. And company with this is really to congratulate the footage got what you need.

The rest?

Nothing. Today, VACO is a group of dreary Islands, where a glimmer of life. For example, in one of the workshops the representatives of "Irkut" trying to make the polymeric wing for MS-21. Yeah, same, import substitution of domestic materials. Not from the us, as it was originally.

I Understand why the MS-21 does not fly. Wing repeat until you can't.

The cases of "Ilyushin", there is all dull and sad. Of the nearly one hundred departments, a shortage of leading experts more than half. Experts dismissed under various pretexts, reducing, stopping contracts, a very popular formulation "by agreement of the parties".

In General, VASO is the place to be, if not capture, then something similar. New General Director Yury Grudinin – a native of Taganrog, from the walls TNTK named after Beriev. The company, which for a long time produces a single plane. The be-200.

Needless to say, as you'll be Be-200 and Il-96, Il-112? Tasks design Bureau "Ilyushin" is much wider as EDO always set ourselves very ambitious. Unlike the Beriev team working on the life over seaplanes.

So Grudinin – well, a very controversial replacement.

But the main problem is that Grudinin shuffles personnel he inherited at VASO, as he likes. On the one hand, it is normal, every new broom its performance is satisfied. But Beria came with its Charter Ilyushin in the monastery and began to build at their own discretion.

The Cadres decide everything. And with the staff in the "Il" is also done. Abolished the Project-technical complex (PTC), which just worked on a project of medium-sized military transport aircraft (SVTS).
The Main part of the specialists moved to the CB "Tupolev". Well, it's just somewhere I had to go, the Tupolev quickly realized. Who remained, were just spread out through the departments, but this tiny part, notmore than 10%.

In the end we have what we have. Who is going to do transport aircraft, find out all 2019. And found out, by the way. The next series in April 2020. Ready to bet on that guess who gets the work on transport aircraft. Which is still needed and army, and videoconferencing.

As Tupolev actually picked up on the street almost all of the PTK, it can be plenty to fight about the usurpation of the market by the Tupolev design Bureau, but the fact is that "Tu" now has a full set of professionals ready to work on transport aircraft.

On the "Ilyushin" work on an average transporters are not conducted at all. No one.


But despite the fact that the designers figured out, got fired, broke up, and so forth, what is left? Right, left GOZ. The state defense order. Which, of course, leaked. And that breakdown Goza explained the dismissal of Alexey Rogozin.

From the new CEO Grudinina, of course, was expected to play SDO. And how?

And no.

For the year 2020 it is necessary to pass only one Il-76MD, upgraded to the level of MDM. Still not signed, the principal amount of contracts that we can and should work, making all the necessary upgrades.

Say, very timely dispersed legal Department.

In June 2019 VASO has received an order for modernization of two Il-76MD. In March 2020 the work was not started. Do the findings?

When Rogozin things were no better, but the two aircraft was still upgraded. One did year, with the second baggage 538 working days. There was a third, but work on it stopped, the aircraft more than two years is "in the process".

Well, with the Il-76 problem. But the new leadership, why it said that with the production of Il-112 no problems. Moreover, Grudinin noted the statement that "there is an Assembly of third and fourth copies of the Il-112".

In fact, this statement, to put it mildly, not true.



If you do not believe the cheerful reports the press service of VASO and go to social networks, you can find very interesting things. For example, that the stocks, which allegedly collected the Il-112, and stand empty. Shop no 22, specifically. That workers who are unemployed and do not understand what penny salary, it can cause "on the job" in the output, to the arrival of the next Commission they portrayed tireless efforts to create something.

Type, even on weekends, work in full swing, what about the other days to say...

Portray. Why not to play the role at double the salary?

At the same time, "effective" is also fine with "work". To spend the weekend in Sochi is fine. Vacation two times a year in warm type of the Thailand – easily. Managers of economic management, able to work and able to relax.

One can only wonder how the Il-112 all skyrocketed. Especially considering that a decent portion of "effective" is quite normal manages to work in Taganrog, and Voronezh, and some even in the Moscow office of "Ilyushin" moonlighting.

On the usual plant engineers-laborers, which are inefficient, you say strange things. Alexey Rogozin, who really wanted the Il-112 flew, was able to make quite a curve the car to take off.


Very mixed opinions about the Rogozin-younger had to hear. And not all with explicit support. And some with respect. Factory believe that Rogozin is merit, and merit rather big that the Il-112 has risen in the sky. Even so, even with such difficulties.
To my surprise, I learned that, in addition to the take-off of the 112th, Rogozin noted in several projects, which promised success, and profit. Wanted to make the plant the centre of additive technologies and start to print parts made of aluminum, magnesium, titanium, aircraft right here in the Assembly room. The idea was interesting, it was noted by many, but today, all work stopped.

Paradox, but about Alexey Rogozin talking on a dying plant with respect. Yes, the risk he was certain, in 34 years to lead such a plant... if not "the street", but even in our difficult times.

But stayed in position for two years, Alexey Dmitrievich proved to be not a daddy's boy, and quite a competent Manager. Managed to assemble a team to light the people, and in the end 2 of the Il-76MDM was made of the Il-112 rose into the air...

After Rogozin's none of a series of quick, successive Directors of any kind failed to score.

Perhaps if he had another year... But alas, history does not know subjunctive mood. Now Rogozin is in a different place, and there is no reason to speak on the subject of deservedly it was removed from the factory or not. At VASO believe that there is.

If to speak about prospects... And they have the prospects to talk about them?

Believe the word who retired from the plant and the rest that all is not rosy and sad. And that huge plant today if anybody need, it's the fact the above-mentioned temporary worker, who held a succession through the factory, useless and pointless.


But at this rate, "Ilyushin" will soon fly out there... the story behind "Antonov".