Grasping on the fly: as China exports from Ukraine technology of Soviet aircraft

An-124-100 "Ruslan" © wikimedia beijing intends to transfer thousands of employees of ukrainian state enterprise "Antonov" in a specific industrial cluster, where the designers will work on the chinese military-industrial complex. Chinese show interest in other flagships of aviation industry of Ukraine — pjsc "Motor sich" and kb "Pivdenmash. " on the brink of survival, these enterprises are ready to cooperate with foreigners on any terms. China also needs transport aircraft, hoping to put on stream the famous aircraft "Mriya" and "Ruslan", developed in the ussr. About soviet technology in exile at rt.

Globallookpress. Com © starostenko many professionals working in the aviakontserna "Antonov", can be labor migrants after the liquidation of the company. Their skills were in demand in China: according to chinese media, in shaanxi province has built industrial cluster, which will move with the families of 2 thousand employees of gp "Antonov". On the territory of modern open production area luanhe already built production halls and houses with the necessary infrastructure. Beijing is sparing no expense: work on the construction design of the town has cost the people's republic of China at 6. 3 billion yuan (56 billion rubles). According to the "Military-industrial courier", design work will be conducted jointly with the xi'an aviation industrial group of companies and the first research institute of aircraft design of China. One of the main goals of the project — reconstruction on the base of chinese heavy transport aircraft an-225 "Mriya" (ukrainian "Dream"), whose load capacity of 250 tons. Interest in the "Mriya" the chinese leadership has shown for a long time: in the summer of 2016 "Antonov" and China aerospace industry corporation of China (aicc) signed an agreement on the modernization of the transport aircraft. Recall that an-225 was designed for the Kiev mechanical plant in 1984-1988.

Then it was laid only two cars, one of them, Ukraine has constructed and now operates. The second plane remained in the project. In august 2016, the chinese television channel cctv reported that beijing agreed with the leadership of "Antonov" on the transfer of ownership of mriya, including the use of drawings and other documentation. Soon, however, the press service of antonov has denied the information on the transfer of intellectual property rights on the plane. "We are talking about the preparation of proposals for the development contract at the facilities of se "Antonov" will be performed the completion and upgrading of the second copy of the an-225 "Mriya". The customer of this aircraft supports aicc.

Thus, antonov performs one of the main tasks of the aircraft company — construction and delivery of aircraft to the customer," — said in the "Antonov". However, taking into account the plans of the ministry of economic development of Ukraine on the elimination of "Antonov", announced in early 2016, to speak about normal work of the enterprise is not necessary. In addition to "Mriya", beijing plans to establish on its territory the production of aircraft an-124-100 "Ruslan" and an-70. Long range heavy transport plane "Ruslan" were designed as "Dream" in 1980-ies. The main purpose of the machine is the transportation of mobile launchers of intercontinental ballistic missiles and personnel carriers. The plane is still considered the best in its class. In 2006 the Russian government decided to resume the serial production of "Ruslan" in cooperation with the ukrainian side. But the task was not easy: according to experts, some design solutions have been completely lost, and the political confrontation between Kiev and Moscow, which began in 2014, and did not put an end to joint plans of the enterprises of the two countries.

If beijing will be able to establish production of an-124-100, the people's liberation army (pla) will fill the niche of heavy transport aircraft — the chinese military now need a supply of 200 aircraft of this class, experts say. In addition, interest for the chinese armed forces is another military transport plane an-70, the joint brainchild of Russian and ukrainian aircraft industry. In 2011, it was announced that the production of transport aircraft can be transferred to the territory of russia, but those plans were foiled ukrainian "Maidan". According to the chief editor of "Military-industrial potential" viktor nikolaev, the active search for technology abroad is a traditional tactic of beijing. For example, the chinese spacecraft "Great campaign" is by and large the old soviet apparatus. The chinese have started to produce them, not legally, having obtained drawings in russia, in this regard, there was even a criminal case. China seeks to borrow technology from all over the world, including even latin american countries", — the expert said in an interview with rt. It should be noted that China is not the only country with a strong interest in the defense industry square.

Earlier, the government of Turkey concluded with the Kiev agreement on cooperation in the military-financial sector. Ankara has also pledged to provide the ukrainian side assistance in the amount of $15 million and training apu fighters on its territory. In addition, Poroshenko invited turkish partners to take part in the privatization of ukrainian industry. Ukrainian military-industrial complex is of no great interest to the us or European countries, but very attractive country, "Second echelon", is rapidly building up its defense capabilities. According to experts, Kiev took the path of "Wild" privatization and collaboration with foreign players may result in ukrainian defense industry is in full collapse. Migration oboronki antonov is not the only enterprise of the ukrainian military-industrial complex, expanding ties with China.

Beijing actively encourages the transfer of strategic technologies, preserved in the ukrainian defense enterprises. In particular, according to experts, the chinese authorities have already agreed with the bank "Yuzhmash" for the transfer of documents of soviet descent of the lunar module, which the ussr planned to deliver astronauts to the lunar surface. We are not talking about the assembly of the equipment on order, and on technology transfer. In addition, the company handed over to the beijing technical documentation for rocket engines rd-170, rd-120 and rd-9. Jsc "Motor sich" was privatized in the early 1990s, mainly, the company has set its engines to russia. The political confrontation between Kiev and Moscow actually deprived of the "Motor sich" means of livelihood.

It is not surprising that in these conditions the company's management began to look for alternative markets. Being in a difficult situation, the company has to agree to any terms of foreign partners. © www. Motorsich. Comкак said earlier, first vice prime minister of Ukraine stepan kubiv, "Motor sich" plans to build a plant in China, in exchange, beijing promised to spend $250 million on the modernization of the ukrainian engine-building capacity of the concern. "Skyrizon chinese and ukrainian "Motor sich" plans to build a plant in chongqing (central China. — rt) to produce and maintain aircraft engines on ukrainian technologies. And the company plans to invest $250 million in the modernization of the ukrainian production and design capacity "Motor sich" — said kubiv. According to some, the move to China are already preparing many of the employees of jsc "Motor sich" — it is about 3 thousand specialists. However, after China will establish its own production of the necessary components, ukrainian suppliers will be left without chinese orders.

Therefore, the current policy of Kiev, leading to further destruction of self-defense. The path of "Antonov"And recall that in 1946, at the novosibirsk aviation plant was opened a new aviation experimental design bureau under the direction of oleg antonov. After a few years of kb moved to Kiev. State concern "Antonov" included antonov, the kharkov state aviation production enterprise and the state enterprise "Plant 410 civil aviation". Over the years, antonov has created more than a hundred models of aircraft of various classes. On dissolution of the concern, the ministry of economic development announced in early 2016.

The agency claims that the companies were part of the antonov company will continue to work in the "Ukroboronprom". However, for all of 2016, the stocks of the "Antonov" did not come down even one aircraft, attempts to find investors in the us failed. It should be noted that "Euromaidan" turned to the company of large shocks. In 2014, arseniy yatsenyuk tried to send in resignation of the director and concurrently chief designer Dmitry kivu — 71-year-old worked for aircraft manufacturer "Antonov" since 1964.

But employees refused to obey the order of the yatsenyuk: it came to power clashes with the internal troops. The result kivu still removed from administrative control, retaining only the post of chief designer. In 2016, under pressure from the "High authorities", he quit and went to Azerbaijan to raise the local aircraft industry. President of "Antonov" kivu was replaced by the former head of the election headquarters of Petro Poroshenko Mikhail gvozdev, had never worked in aviation (he held this post until mid-2016). Another old acquaintance Poroshenko, roman romanov (previously was engaged in resale of cars), he headed the state concern "Ukroboronprom". Ria novosti "Migration personnel abroad means that Ukraine has almost lost its aviation industry, noted in an interview with rt military expert viktor litovkin. — the defense industry in Ukraine is almost no what to say, if the president brags primitive armored vehicle, calling it unmanned.

Ukrainian defense industry is nowhere further to fall. To create something new there are already can't — largely because of the gap and technological relations with russia. "At the same time, experts are skeptical about the plans of the chinese leadership in the serial.