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recent international forum called engineering technologies two thousand per minister says that despite tough competition russian aircraft manufacturing companies are capable of telling global markets besides famous russian fighter jets there are several civil projects that could become a success globally and one hundred meter passenger plane is one of our 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 world skies powerful one comparatively cheap they remain an attractive alternative to more expensive western models a brand new generation fighter jet 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 t 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 foreign brands like boeing and so what else is coming from the hangar. maker the c.e.o. . will spill the beans on today's additional 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 black eyed 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. 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 output is what we manufacture goods twelve to fourteen per cent of all military aircraft so there we were you. telling me this is that so you do it's any country make 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 law keyed and boeing will keep the which mainly provide aircraft for the u.s. department of defense. for the pentagon's got it i would get. no waste a beach in the way it's recently in china presented its new footage it 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 and the people's republic of china has signed a contract for the licensed 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 the year craft them developing the 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 protecting our intellectual property and developing this project to further only one so you do have questions about this across the world so it's not clear what it's a violation of and lois said to figure that out but we do have questions and we have to discuss this matter in detail would help large numbers which is what our agencies and experts on both sides are doing now. to chip away. you've mentioned america being a lotus manufacturer of military aircraft as well to do it but it was primarily because the u.s. department of defense was quite a pentagon is u.s. made a crofter that yes the us 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 well but now the situation is changing. it is 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. these need to be serious i was a. defense minister he isn't just trading has already become one of our major customers in two thousand and eight in two thousand and nine we signed contracts to supply on more than a hundred and fifty aircraft to the defense ministry a lot of news to one hundred plus of sukhoi just go and thirty laws make planes some of those who are i believe the defense ministry plan. to continue mining new aircraft for the air force. planes that were manufactured before the nine hundred ninety s. are gradually being commissioned so one of the. most of the points sukhoi produce

will go to the defense ministry. of course so this will add to our instability. help us promote products on the international market as well. just ten years ago. now it's back with a new generation jet market spotlights you know. 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 so that you ration of its flight it said to possess twice the range of its american equivalent and is expected to keep 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 to plane this is the jet one hundred was presented to the international public at last he's paris and show how about the super jets main task is not so much to impress potential for in customers but to replace the outdated planes currently used by russian. the driving force behind the regeneration of the russian there is its growing cooper ration with bars. what started as just supply oprah materials is great really turned into joint research and it can only to 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 their boss. and now after watching this video i have a question let's compare planes and cause the fiesta my formula one race cars will are basically policy models to try out new technology that will later be implemented in mass produced 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 then that's 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 tech team alloys which are widely used in civil aviation to date were initially developed for military purposes and the same goes for any onyx. in 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 to do that's a two way street on the one hand you have military technologies developed for military programs simply matted in civil aviation but on the other hand many things in that ad for civil aviation road for military planes with e.m.c. for example boeing seven hundred eighty seven on the it's use of composing materials so it's a whole new level of aircraft design. so if we want to be a world leader in an aircraft manner. factory. booth is the most free and civil sector. i know that huge company plans to increase the share of civil aircraft but because so far you make money mostly by making military across there do you

plan to increase the share of civil aircraft by means of the russian market what are you planning to promote your products more aggressively worldwide. in the company of me. there is no russian market in the aircraft industry there's the world market 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 terrific 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 with that or would you consider that's why we have to go by world standards would be a possible 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 you so low to. be able to access through it by the way an aeroflot offended your company just the other day they appealed to the russian leadership saying they wanted to become a monopolist effective 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 those are regional class planes three of them useless for short medium and long range airliners at this point in the united aircraft corporation cannot alone for air flow planes that would be able to compete against boeing or airbus should this be so in the future and we would like to share more civil points to offer but to date your flooding is our strategic partner for regional class

planes. this should choose what's made this medium range sukhoi superjet project nor successful event. tuple if t u three thirty four if i got its name right there the 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 if you have to keep it short well you can take teen years to design a new plane or will you have to keep it short. some say it's because two people have 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 we in terms of both plants and floetry loans believe we came out with a better one hundred passenger aircraft for the regional market was that of we used a number of new technological solutions that made it competitive for school group for example its control system is the safest in its class so if it meets the highest international standards and it's more comfortable in periods your 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 you want to break so stay with us then .

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welcome back to spotlight time out you know often just sort of monday that my guest in the studio today is me by guy sound the first vice president of the united aircraft corporation he is also the head of the soho aircraft camp and make africa and they so that the man who who makes all the jet planes in this country nearly all of them. because expressions of what if they're coming back to your favorite brainchild of the super show so picturesque tank is sad they would hit the market in the summer of two thousand and ten which means pretty soon this at the very keeping up with the timetable that they see what they do we have twelve planes being assembled there to come some malls going on 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 going through our plans 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 more in there not hundred

twenty points for those 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. well the percentage varies but how much do you like to get. personally i don't have any particular. payment. really important to the company's. various modifications so that catalog varies between twenty five and twenty eight million dollars. we offer discounts and the market price is subject to. the 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 you have more. when you are the one. with little chris. interest. let's see if. those bullets if they. yes i do i think. it is new. technique. because i. don't really trust. no i don't well it actually. aircraft.

to be honest with you. and that's why i'm willing to pay a bit more for forty years graft on the house and a bite out of. the knowledge that. i know that. i've got to get he has got a question guessed. competitors or the russian aircraft. so my next question is how competitive the russian aircraft 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'll be flying a boeing. we're talking about civil points right. well over the past twenty years we've 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 at the it depends on the company that operates them right this is also true someone often russian made planes are inferior to the foreign made counterparts in that vein joyless maintenance i mean. we're putting most serious sampras's on organizing your worldwide after sales service systems that can meet more than standards considering that there are no less important than developing 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 passengers it's a separation when we weren't before the responsibility was we have companies currently both in the old. similar craft it's the manufacturer and that should be our responsibility for after sales service and we are organizing a special structure that will keep aircraft in terms of throughout their service life will be should what all the legal aspect to say you'll move through aircraft from flights that has to be for maintenance we must assure such reliability that airlines would be able to operate the plane between scheduled maintenance periods the maintenance schedule will be part of the contract. wish there was a future of so you can ban in a craft from being upgraded if it fails to get maintenance that's not our goal or goal is to work together with the airlines and provide everything necessary for a successful operation off aircraft on with what is this something you just plan today but note something we're already doing and we have been doing you see when

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 kill to bring the entire production chain back to russia like it was in the soviet times. or so 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 with the high intellectual resource of the engineer personnel the manse russian industry and so forth with 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 make of the new russian sea become marusya once came to the studio and was sitting where you're sitting right now he said he had been told things told breaks made by ball. 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 study for it they told him is there anything like that innovation. yet you. know i don't 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 they 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 they will 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 ukraine as i understand well one time for 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 income is going to more or are you working with the ukrainians russia today has some experience in making military transport planes for example i'll seventy six 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 if you will be a ton of company in some other plants in ukraine i see some promise and you know i think that we should pool our resources and efforts to my mind this may be very effective if you have 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 be results soon. we've also talked about how to ration with the training now about india if they want to weigh in they 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. 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. india produces this aircraft under license and it would with the multipurpose transport plane program we progressed from a regular solar by relationship with food. producing more than aircraft.

we're also considering a similar partnership for the fifth generation project of 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. multi-purpose 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 them all waiting on that. soon as the defense minister gives us a definite list of required characteristics for this plane we will be able to start working 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. general director. and the companies and the. heads the first twice president of the russian state's aviation building corporation and that's it for now from all of us have moved back with more firsthand comments on it was going on in and outside russia until then stay on r.t. and take care of.

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