Jumping from one needle, Russia got hooked on another

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Ранее we told about the successes achieved by the Russian defense industry in replacing components supplied from Nezalezhnaya. On the domestic military machinery installed: Ukrainian electronics, helicopter and aircraft engines from the Zaporizhzhya company Motor Sich, as well as gas turbine engines from the Nikolaev Zarya-Mashproekt. In addition, our military-industrial complex depended, for example, on France, which supplied thermal imagers for Russian tanks, but refused to fulfill its obligations due to the sanction policy Of the West.


Restrictive measures painfully affected the Russian defense industry, for example, a pause was taken to create a series of frigates for the Black Sea Fleet at the Kaliningrad Yantar. The ships remaining without the Nikolaev engines, it was decided to sell to India. New Delhi will independently purchase engines from Kiev to install them on frigates sold to it. A lot of work has been done to eliminate dependence on Ukrainian and European suppliers. To do this, orders were loaded by NPO Saturn, concern Shvabe, UEC-Klimov, NPO Orion, which allowed us to get through the main pain points.



In general, there has been a positive trend in import substitution in the defense sector. However, there are some very controversial issues. Representatives of the military-industrial complex explain that not all components are intended to replace, referring to economic expediency. Where the wind is blowing now, said Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov, who is responsible for ensuring the country's national security, explaining that the light has not converged in the USA and the European Union:

There are very good offers from the countries of the Southeast region, primarily China, Malaysia, Taiwan, where the main high-tech industries are concentrated today.


It seems that now the Kremlin has decided to bet on the Middle Kingdom. Sergei Denisentsev, an expert at the Analysis Center, echoes the authorities, believing that it is better to depend on China than on Europe, which can introduce new anti-Russian sanctions at any time. And completely import substituting the entire range of components and engines is too difficult and expensive. Instead of, for example, German power units for small vessels, it is easier for officials from the military-industrial complex not to make their own, but to buy Chinese ones. So now some of the engines on Russian military equipment will be of domestic production, and the rest will be Chinese.

Military expert Alexander Khramchikhin expressed his opinion on such "import substitution":

We changed one dependency to another. Therefore, this is a very conditional replacement. A true replacement is when everything is completely your own.


Defense officials believe that in the current configuration, it’s “more profitable” to depend on China. But what will happen if, after some time, Moscow’s relations with Beijing go wrong?
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  1. 0
    18 September 2018 14: 45
    How to drink it, experts from the HSE advise the government.
  2. +1
    19 September 2018 00: 07
    Own engine building is a costly thing. Build your own motors and 10 years is not enough. For example, Israel does not build any motors at all. They have German MTU motors on their milestones
  3. 0
    19 September 2018 11: 26
    But what will happen if, after some time, Moscow’s relations with Beijing go wrong?

    Then we will restore relations with the independent! laughing It is surprising that a country that was relatively high-tech for its time has to discuss the need to create certain enterprises to eliminate its dependence! In my opinion, the process of eliminating addiction should have been launched 20 years ago, then today such silly questions would not have arisen. With the volume of our raw materials, this is simply a vital necessity! Another issue is that private companies do not want to start making profits in 10-15 years, while state-owned companies are very inert and slow.
  4. Owl
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    19 September 2018 13: 27
    If it does not work out with China, there will be relations with Taiwan, Malaysia, India ....
    1. +1
      17 December 2018 16: 15
      Bullshit in the aerospace industry and in the defense industry, Russia should not have any dependencies on anyone. Then we will not be afraid of any sanctions and deterioration of relations with anyone else. We must be absolutely self-sufficient in this matter. You can buy iPhones and any other household rubbish that does not affect our defense and national security. To explain the fact that neither Gazprom nor Rosneft, but precisely the military-industrial complex, is the locomotive of the development of the entire Russian industry, I hope no one needs it, it’s just a common truth.
  5. +2
    22 September 2018 22: 23
    Lord, but why does China have everything? Even a marine cable, or a crane for Zvezda? And we have Polish clothespins.
    1. +1
      23 September 2018 08: 09
      Because the Russian "elites" are consistently integrating the country into the Western capital. system. And there, developed industry in Russia is not needed by anyone, only resources, and the proceeds from their sale are also withdrawn to the West in the form of candy wrappers, securities, and so on. Read how many tens of thousands of industrial enterprises have closed in the country over the years of the so-called. stability
  6. +2
    23 September 2018 17: 44
    no matter how we scold "the specialists from the HSE, but according to the logic of the events they are partially right. Well, it is not possible to produce everything in the Russian Federation. I would not be ashamed to use and sell for myself ...