now i hear a mistake this is. all in this issue. of he does praise moscow's ever good relations with the west and agree to use food as a diplomatic. america's longest u.s. involvement in afghanistan so paul says vietnam is frustration build needs and to grow in human and financial costs the time in afghanistan and one time high in june

the bloodiest month for foreign troops since the songs of. the us small love us three of us joined spaceflights in the poland cold war the nations that followed almost day five years ago two spacecraft one soviet one american. and they to dock in orbit in the apollo soyuz mission. and today i'll go to the first vice president of the you know who pray should be fired up about the successes and failures of production. hello again and welcome to spotlight on r.t.

. and today my guest in the studio. at the recent international forum called engineering technologies two thousand permits to said that despite tough competition russian aircraft manufacturing companies are capable of penetrating global markets the size famous russian fighter jets several civil projects that could become a success globally and one hundred passenger plane is one of the. guests in the studio today is the first vice president of the united aircraft corporation to talk about the plans and the problems of the russian aircraft industry. have been dominating much of the skies powerful comparatively cheap they remain an attractive alternative to more expensive western models. is being tested now and some foreign experts say the t.v.

is better than its american rivals. is a flying high and computer and russians are especially proud because the g fifty is made mainly of russian components besides produce. the company is launching a passenger plane the super jet it's a replacement for planes and poor brands like boeing. so what else is coming from the hangar. maker the c.e.o. . will spill the beans on today's edition of spotlight. thanks for joining us who. first thing that. comes to mind when you talk about. the recent presentation of a fifth generation fighter jet but a prime minister putin attended for resign a grown tests done and fly tests have still ahead that does this mean that russia is still there with leader and military aircraft with me that are the. certainly

our positions in military aircraft manufacturing are a quite strong expose. and to me the ground for twenty five percent of the world's military aircraft exports in terms of blood will flow we manufacture goods twelve to fourteen per cent of all military aircraft so there we were you. telling me this is that so should do it's any country making more across the american middle or the united states it covers more than fifty percent of the world's military aircraft market. so is the world's number three producer but the first two places are taken by a law keyed and boeing will keep the ball which mainly provide aircraft what the u.s. department of defense used. for the counter bombs going to i would. always teach in the way it's recently china presented its new fighter jet cold f c one. mistaken

it looks very much like our su twenty seven but i think it's also cheaper so two questions here first do you see this as dumping and will russia take any measures to protect its intellectual property which they have to skip iowa. more than twenty years ago to russian federation then the people's republic of china has signed a contract for the a license to production of ass u. twenty seven in china. it was under the contract with russia was to supply ports for certain number of planes but will china wants to manufacture a certain number of fear craft with the. and the deal also included some other provisions about the possibility of more knowledge being dear craft them developing the use a program further. could make honestly we do have some questions concerning the way this agreement is being implemented the russian chinese commission for military

technical cooperation is looking into these matters so i will soon work out a mutually acceptable solution as a regards were attempting our intellectual property and developing this project to further only one so you do have questions about this across so it's not clear whether it's a violation and lois had to figure that out but we do have questions and we have to discuss this matter in detail with all partners which is what our agencies and experts on both sides are doing now to comply. with the two. you've mentioned america being a low just manufacturer of military aircraft as well to do it but it was primarily because the u.s. department of defense had a pentagon is yes made. that yes the u.s. market is the largest nor is russia mostly produces a for export as i understand it i can say that over the past twenty years the russian defense ministry of purchased almost no new planes for a modest but all are achievements in the industry are based on our mass production

for export oil but now the situation is changing it. is his i was just about to ask whether the russian defense ministry and the air force are ready to develop and to become your major customers. you need to be serious i was a. defense minister he isn't just trading has already become one or a major customers in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine but we signed contracts to supply more than a hundred and fifty aircraft to the defense ministry a lot of news to one hundred plus of sukhoi to go and thirty laws make planes mobile so who are the i believe the defense ministry plan. to continue buying new aircraft for the air force. planes that were manufactured before and the nine hundred ninety s. are gradually being commissioned so one of the. most of the points sukhoi

produce will go through the defense ministry. of course this will add to our instability. help us promote our products on the international market as well. just ten years ago. crisis now it's back with a new generation jet on the market spotlights you know has more that. the pride of russia's aviation industry then you wish to change a ration fighter jet fifty was unveiled to the public at the beginning of the year the jets most outstanding characteristics and stealth and its ability to fly at supersonic speeds for the duration of its flight it's said to possess twice the range of its american equivalent and is expected to capture a large part of the market when it comes into service in three years time in this says it wants to buy up to two hundred fifty of these jets and the demand for them

is only expected to increase as they're going to be cheaper than those from the u.s. but what's probably more important for russians is that civil aviation is also showing signs of preval after almost twenty years of decline the first post soviet besting just plain. the jet one hundred was presented to the international public at last year's paris show however the subjects main task is not so much to impress potential for in customers but to replace the outdated planes currently used by russian airliner as the driving force behind the regeneration of the russian navy is its growing corporation with bars. what started as just supply a pro materials is great chili turned into joint research and it can only chip projects in the past five years where she has increased state funding of the industry play twenty times but it still might take keys if not decades for the

civil segment of russian aviation to keep up with its western counterparts like boeing boss. but what in the at that now after watching this video i have a question let's compare planes and cause some i know it's a fiesta my formula one race cars are basically policy models to try out new technology that will later be implemented in mass protests because you don't. so is there a similar situation in your industry that once you develop a new technology for combat aircraft do you then apply it in civil aviation when there is that after this there is a six month. well she story coley military aviation has always been the driving force behind the aircraft manufacturing industry where many new materials like thirteen email oist which are widely used in civil aviation to date were initially developed for military purposes and the same goes for every onyx. the

military industry was leading the way and then it's to knowledge use were integrated into civil aviation but now the situation has changed due to a two way street on the one hand you have military technologies developed for military programs simply mounted in civil aviation but on the other hand many things in that had for civil aviation road for military planes for example boeing seven eighty seven on the it's use of compose of materials so it's a whole new level of aircraft design. so if we want to be a world leader in aircraft man. factory. booth is the military and civil sector. i know that you company plans to increase the share of civil aircraft because so far you make money mostly by making military aircraft and that do you plan to

increase the share of civil aircraft by means of the russian market are you planning to promote your products more aggressively worldwide. there is no russian market in the aircraft industry there is the world market with you if we want to succeed and this applies to both military and civil programs we have to consider the world aircraft market and the reason we have been successful with our military aircraft is because we considered the situation on the world market and we made them competitive over the same goes for civil aviation but you when you said something strange just now what do you mean there is no domestic market. here traffic inside russia is so low that you can't rely on it to produce an airplane that would be able to compete against western ear craft that was open to if we consider only the russian market with our planes wound stand competition for that or would you consider that's why we have to go by world standards will actually in our airlines who want the same flawed doesn't want to buy russian planes often

theory or quality used it once aircraft was superior to those used by its rivals here so low to complete a success through it by the way an aeroflot offended to a company just the other day they appealed to the russian leadership saying they wanted to become a monopolist effect and they said that health of the planes they buy would be right and the other half knowing about does this mean that they're not going to buy your plane said old. sirius no we have a contract with air flight for thirty planes with an option for them to buy more later one of three of those are regional class planes with us for short medium and long range airliners at this point in the united aircraft corporation cannot flow for air flow planes that would be able to compete against boeing or airbus should this be so in the future we would like to have more civil points to offer but to date your forty's our strategic partner for regional class planes. they should

choose what's made this medium range sukhoi superjet project most successful event . tuple if t. you three thirty four if i got its name right also that little blue cube well that's because we design our plane for the future not for to day and another thing when you launch a new project you have to keep it short well you can take ten years to design a new plane or they'll have to keep it short leash they should do some sleighs because tupolev did everything on its own while saeco used for into college and. from the very outset we decided that we wanted our products to have international certificates we wanted to have an airplane that we would be able to offer to both domestic and foreign customers consequently we had to impose strict requirements on our contractors so when they had to provide international certificates for the ports they provided for support and we had

a cost limitations because we have to compete against western mass produced aircraft and in terms of both plants and floetry alone someone believed we came up with a better year with one hundred passenger aircraft for the regional market was a little if we used a number of new technological solutions that made it competitive from school to for example its control systems use the safest in its class so if it meets the highest international standards and it's more comfortable compared to other regional planes then there is a number of other technological solutions because she says. general director of the whole company spotlight will be back shortly right after a break so stay with us then. every month we give you the future we help you understand how to get there and what

to bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world join us acknowledging update on our g. welcome back to spotlight time our nabhan just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is me how you guys sound the first vice president of the united aircraft corporation he's also the head of the soho aircraft can't any make after that and they so that the man who who makes all the

jet planes in this country nearly all of them. because expressions that i what if you're coming back to your favorite brainchild of the super jedi to show some pictures tank is sad they would hit the market in the summer of twenty ten which means pretty soon at the very keeping up with the timetable that include these two at the direction you do we have twelve planes being assembled there to come some most going to we're all the different stages but hell many do you need to hit the market to come to the market it's enough to supply the first link to your customer getting to our planes we are to supply the first three planes three or four in our mob years from our first customers how many have you sold today to just today our stock of orders is who were in there nine hundred twenty points there's already sold yet. received advance payments from our customers to some of them how much is the advance payment in relation to the full price school and also the percentage varies so i would how much do you like to get the let's hope the world personally i

don't have any particular preferences will be smaller the advance payment to the higher the price with the bigger the advance payment will lower the price can you avoid the most. so it's not really important to the companies that. there are various modifications so that catalog varies between twenty five and twenty eight million dollars. we offer discounts and the market price is subject. to company and its customers sport let's. try to find out if people here in russia trust russian aircraft here's what she came up with hi there well some say that it is safe to travel by plane. however it seems that. when you are the one. little chris no flights miniscule really. interest. let's see if. those bullets if.

yes i do think. it is new. technique. because i. don't really trust. no i don't well it actually. gets. to be honest with you.

it's but. i've got to get he has got a question guest. that's going to get us to competitive or the russian aircraft. so my next question is how competitive the russian approach considering the fact that as you've just seen many people tend to distrust russian aircraft or even tourist companies as they run their advertising campaigns promise you you'll be flying a boeing. we're talking about civil points right. well over the past twenty years we have developed a very few new plane models and as a result certain amount of trust has built up because a russian made planes in the early companies used to do mostly old ones. he said you know even if we take those critical things that we've just mentioned

the picture that emerges is an accurate one on the one hand they point to high level of technology and a high level of reliability but breakdowns are rather frequent because of the like of servicing exploits you know it at that it depends on the company that operates them right this is also true somewhat often russian made planes are inferior to their foreign made counterparts in that they enjoy less maintenance i mean. we're putting most serious sampras's on organizing a worldwide after sales service system that can meet more than standards for considering that as a no less important than developing an aircraft complex within the framework officer project one hundred project. most attention to infrastructure and servicing all over the world would you not responsible to persons as a separation when we weren't before the responsibility was we have companies currently both in military and similar craft it's the manufacturer and that should be responsibility for after sales service and we are organizing

a special structure that will keep aircraft in terms of throughout their service life would be should whatever the legal aspect to say you'll move through aircraft from flights. just before maintenance we must assure sucher liability that airlines would be able to operate the plane between scheduled maintenance periods for the maintenance schedule will be part of the contract. which they dispute should be so you can ban in a craft from being upgraded if it fails to get maintenance that's not our goal our goal is to work together with the airlines and provide everything necessary for a successful operation off aircraft is that something you just plan today with something we're already doing and we have been doing these even before we supplied our first aircraft to customers. we've begun talking about sycorax cooperation with foreign companies. do you plan to expand this cup aeration would have been the reason to bring the entire production chain back to russia like it was in the soviet times. of course we should increase russia's sheer in the production of

equipment but since we consider the world market we should coppery it with the world's leading components like manufacturers and i see it is our strategy vector to my mind or russia possesses a lot of skills like you'll software development to go on the high intellectual resource of the engineer personnel the manse russian industry and so forth with these could be modern industries are emerging as well you know that makes it possible to increase the sheriff russian made in future planes a little. bit the does this international cooperation have a matthew elements to it let me explain what i mean will come with mystify manco the maker of the new russian super come once came to the studio and was sitting where you're sitting right now he said he had been told in seoul breaks made by bosch and all the foreign made components in which case had been promised there would be no problem certificate why is it he said he wanted to use only russian

parts no one would say he fired they told him is there anything like that innovation. yeah you. know i. see anything like that all you need is a sufficient amount of skills and experience because you can certified almost anything but will if you certify something that was never certified before you have to realize that their certification cycle will take a lot of time we must make products that will come to the market within rather a brief time frame to do so there is no question of protectionism no there is no direct protectionism he'll write another question it's more of a political nature but you are the right person to ask about it said the bulk of the soviet military transport aircraft industry was left in the crane as i understand well was the main manufacturer in this class also what's your plan will you try to make something new on the road so i know you have

a plant incomes are going to more or are you working with the ukrainians well russia today has some experience in making military transport planes for example i also had a six who was one of the main planes used by the defense ministry for transportation as well today the aleutian company has a number of branches but of course we are actively discussing the possibility of integrating russian aircraft industry the ton of company and some other plants in ukraine i see some promise and you know i think there should pool our resources and efforts to my mind this may be a very effective with the expertise that russia and ukraine have in the area of military transport aircraft and i think we can be very successful because oh right we've discussed cooperation with china we said there are a few problems but you've promised that they will get results soon we've also talked about cut the ration with ukraine now about india if they want to weigh in

they're both from the fact that we sell many military planes to india there is also a russian intent project to develop a multiple transport plane yes how is the project going and when will. we have the first results. of our strategic partners in aircraft manufacturing and this goes beyond military planes like you just said this includes transport planes as well as the russian engine program of building the su thirty m. very successful and you know india produces this aircraft under license from the world with the multipurpose transport plane program we progressed from a regular solar by relationship with the. shipping producing more than aircraft. we're also considering a similar partnership for their fifth generation project which we also mentioned today by the way with so i think we'll have some results in the next few years this

year i expect that we'll sign action plans for both programs. transport plane and that of the fifth generation and the last question could you reveal a secret and tell us whether russia is going to build its own drones or continue to buy them from israel it's designing on managerial planes is one of the priorities for you definitely get the photos so you know what king on it should be soon as the defense minister gives us a definite list stuff required characteristics for this plane we'll be able to start hurting on this project directly in situations where a small number of drones are necessary i think they can be purchased from israel. thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest in the studio today was. general director of the oil and make companies and the head the first vice president of the

russian state building corporation and that's it for now from all of us here will be back with more first and comments that it wasn't like on and outside russia until then stay out and take a. the bag. the bag.

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