Ukraine has sold its "Dream"
As you know, sanctions are a double-edged tool. By breaking up economic cooperation with the Russian Federation, Ukraine damaged not only the “aggressor” proclaimed by it, but also itself. In particular, the aircraft manufacturing industry, Independently, suffered very seriously.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the pride of the USSR remained in Ukraine - the state-owned enterprise Antonov, which produced a whole family of An aircraft, from the corn carrier to the largest aircraft in the world, the An-225, Mriya (Dream). The company began to languish, remaining at hand in sovereign Ukraine. But after the coup in 2014, Antonov’s state plummeted.
Already in May 2014, some experts familiar with the situation at the enterprise rated it as degraded. It has been suggested that Antonov is now only “pretending” to be a design bureau. In 2016-2017, not a single new aircraft rolled out of the Antonov production shops. In 2016, with the light hand of the Maidan authorities, Antonov sold the entire Chinese company China Aerospace technological documentation for the pride of the Soviet aviation industry, the An-225 Mriya super-heavy transport aircraft.
In July 2017, the state concern Antonov was liquidated and all its constituent enterprises were transferred to Ukroboronprom. However, this decision is not able to raise the "Antonov" into the sky. The problem is the continued dependence of the Ukrainian enterprise on the supply of Russian components, the volume of which reaches 30%. In some models of aircraft manufactured by Ukraine, the composition of components of Russian origin reaches 70%.
Experts explain that contrary to the statements of the Ukrainian authorities on solving the problem of import substitution, today this problem is not resolved. At the moment, in Antonov there is not even a set of technical documentation for the An-148 and An-158 aircraft.
The real state of the aviation industry, Independent, is assessed as “lying, with very little chance of rising.” Obviously, in the European Union, an association with which Ukraine has signed, for example, no competitors from Nezalezhnaya are definitely not needed. And Europeans definitely will not allocate money to raise this industry. There are reasonable doubts as to whether Ukraine needs its own aircraft industry of modern power in Kiev. After Maidan, in pursuit of chimeric fantasies about the European future, Ukraine symbolically sold its “Dream”. There is no doubt that Ukraine’s own aircraft industry can exist and develop only in close cooperation with Russia.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the pride of the USSR remained in Ukraine - the state-owned enterprise Antonov, which produced a whole family of An aircraft, from the corn carrier to the largest aircraft in the world, the An-225, Mriya (Dream). The company began to languish, remaining at hand in sovereign Ukraine. But after the coup in 2014, Antonov’s state plummeted.
Already in May 2014, some experts familiar with the situation at the enterprise rated it as degraded. It has been suggested that Antonov is now only “pretending” to be a design bureau. In 2016-2017, not a single new aircraft rolled out of the Antonov production shops. In 2016, with the light hand of the Maidan authorities, Antonov sold the entire Chinese company China Aerospace technological documentation for the pride of the Soviet aviation industry, the An-225 Mriya super-heavy transport aircraft.
In July 2017, the state concern Antonov was liquidated and all its constituent enterprises were transferred to Ukroboronprom. However, this decision is not able to raise the "Antonov" into the sky. The problem is the continued dependence of the Ukrainian enterprise on the supply of Russian components, the volume of which reaches 30%. In some models of aircraft manufactured by Ukraine, the composition of components of Russian origin reaches 70%.
Experts explain that contrary to the statements of the Ukrainian authorities on solving the problem of import substitution, today this problem is not resolved. At the moment, in Antonov there is not even a set of technical documentation for the An-148 and An-158 aircraft.
The real state of the aviation industry, Independent, is assessed as “lying, with very little chance of rising.” Obviously, in the European Union, an association with which Ukraine has signed, for example, no competitors from Nezalezhnaya are definitely not needed. And Europeans definitely will not allocate money to raise this industry. There are reasonable doubts as to whether Ukraine needs its own aircraft industry of modern power in Kiev. After Maidan, in pursuit of chimeric fantasies about the European future, Ukraine symbolically sold its “Dream”. There is no doubt that Ukraine’s own aircraft industry can exist and develop only in close cooperation with Russia.
- Sergey Marzhetsky
- Dima Sergienko/wikipedia.org
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