welcome back the headlines for you now tropical trouble an exotic mosquito borne diseases plaguing russia in the wake of the summer's on precedented heat wave. online whistleblower wiki leaks post a secret cia report on perceptions of the u.s. as an exporter of terrorism it follows last month's publication of tens of thousands of sensitive documents. adrenaline rush russian youths are turning to new extreme activity donors train surfing for cheap thrill. and outcast lovers a growing number of young couples in india are facing their families and communities but choosing to marry outside the traditional caste system. and now it's time for the tease interview show spotlights the head of sukhoi aircraft is in the studio to talk without going off about the future of russian aviation. for the full story we've got it for us the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

every month we give you the future we help you understand how we get there and want to bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world join us acknowledging update on our g. o again awoken to spotlight on our team. and today my guest in the studio is. at the recent international forum called engineering technology 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 the super jet one hundred media 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 russian aircraft industry. before have been dominating much of the world skies powerful and comparatively cheap they remain an attractive alternative to more expensive western models a brand new fifth generation fighter jet is being tested now and some foreign experts say the t. fifty is better than its american rivals. is a flying high and computer and russians are especially proud because the g fifty is made made. they are russian components besides produce milk profit companies launching a passenger plane the super jet it's a replacement for also good planes and foreign brands like boeing and so what else

is coming from the hand gars of this russian aircraft maker the c.e.o. all supported me will spill the beans on today's edition of spotlight. there's to tell mr bug a c.n.n. thanks for joining us though. the first thing that comes to mind when you talk about. the recent presentation of a fifth generation fighter jet back at the prime minister putin attended for resign a grown tests done and fly tests have started out that does this mean that russia is still a world leader in military aircraft. certainly our positions in military aircraft manufacturing are a quite strong expose for the. ground for twenty four percent of the world's military aircraft exports in terms of output we manufacture it twelve to fourteen

percent of all military aircraft so there we were you. telling me this is that so much to do it's any country make more across america so when mary consider the middle of 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 long keyed and boring look at the wall which mainly provide aircraft for the u.s. department of defense you still look for the counter bombs going to. stay really in the hallways t.v. 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. do you see this as dumping and will russia take any measures to protect its intellectual property so if they have to skip iowa. years to go to russian

federation then the people's republic of china can sign a contract for the a licensed production of su 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 prattles that would in the deal also included some other provisions from the possibility of mordor not craft them developing these program further. would you 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 what it's a violation of and lois had to figure that out but we do have questions and we have

to discuss this matter in detail with our partners which is what our agencies and experts on both sides are doing now. 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 a pentagon is u.s. made a crofter that yes the u.s. market is the largest donor is russia mostly produces a crop for export as i understand 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 but now the situation is changing it. is his i was just about to ask where the russian defense ministry and the air force are ready to. developed and to become your major customers. the. defense ministry isn't just trading has already become one of our major customers in two

thousand and eight two thousand and nine we signed contract 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 plans to continue mining new aircraft for the air force mostly the planes that were manufactured before the nine hundred ninety s. are gradually being commissioned so one of the. most of the points sukhoi produce but if you will go to the defense ministry. of course this will add to our instability and help us promote our products on the international market as well. well just ten years ago the russian tree was in a deep crisis now it's back with

a new generation jets 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 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 greece is going to be cheaper than those from the u.s. but what's probably more important for russians is that c. also showing signs of after almost twenty years of decline the first post soviet messenger plane this jet

one hundred was presented to the international public at last year's paris show how about the super jets main task is not so much to impress potential for in costumers but to replace the outdated planes currently used by russian. the driving force behind the regeneration of the russian there is growing cooper ation with bars what started as just supply oprah materials is great it turned into joint research and economy which approach it in the past five years russia 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. and after watching this video i have a question let's compare claims and cause. after my formula one race cars or will

are basically policy models to try out new technology that will later be implemented in mass produced cars you don't tell me so is there a similar situation in your industry that once you develop a new technology for combat aircraft then apply it in civil aviation. historically military aviation has always been the driving force behind the aircraft manufacturing industry 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 awnings. the military industry was leading the way and then it's just knowledge is were integrated into civil aviation. now the situation has changed to do 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 me things

in that had for civil aviation road for military planes for example boeing seven 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 aircraft manufacturing we can go in there we should develop both the military and civil sector. i know that steel company plans to increase the share of civil aircraft someone with but because so far you make money mostly by making military acromion that what do you plan to increase the share of civil aircraft by means of the russian market or 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 is the world market would do 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 through on it to produce an airplane that would be able to compete against western aircraft to if we consider only the russian market with our planes wound stand competition with it or would you consider that's why we have to go by world standards will actually in our airlines who want the same flaw doesn't want to buy russian planes often fieri or quality confused it wants aircraft was superior to those used by its rivals you so little to complain. except 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 you had to 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 three of them useless for short medium and long range airliners at this point unless 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 flooding is our strategic partner for regional class planes. they should choose what's made this medium range sukhoi superjet project nor successful vendor. tuple if t u three thirty four if i got its name right there in a little blue cube well that's because we design our plane for the future is not

for today and another thing when you launch a new project if you have to keep it short well you can take ten years to design a new plane or they will have to keep it short. some say is 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 and we had a cost limitations because we have to compete against western mass produced aircraft and in terms of both plants and loans believe we came out with a better deal with one hundred passenger aircraft for the regional market wolf we used a number of new technological solutions that made it competitive from school for example it's

a control system to 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 with that after a break so stay with us and. 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 technology update on our g.

welcome back to spotlight time outer knob and 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 camp and make after that i may so that the man who who makes all the jet planes in this country nearly all of the. skies expressions of what if they're coming back to your favorite brainchild of the super jedi to show some pictures tank is sad they will hit the market in the summer of two thousand and ten which means pretty soon deceptive are you keeping up with the timetable that includes who it's going to go to do we have twelve planes being assembled there to come some malls going to work 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 plane to your customer getting to our planes we are to supply the first three planes three or four in our mob you're our first customers how many have you sold today to just today our stock of orders is in there nine hundred twenty points there's already sold yes in a move received advance payments from our customers so it's a lot of them how much is the advance payment in relation to the full price also well the percentage varies i would how much do you like to get the world personally i don't have any particular preferences in the smaller the advance payment to the higher the price so the bigger the advance payment will lower the price of can you avoid the almost this so it's not really important to the companies as it was at the time how much does this super just costs of going to school from there are very smooth. occasions so that catalog varies between twenty five and twenty eight million dollars. we offer discounts and the

market price is subject to. switch when the company and its customers spot let's. try to find out if people here in russia trust russian aircraft here's what she came up. hi there well some say that it is safer to travel by plane than by car however it seems that you have more things when you are the one on the plane with little christmas flights miniscule ready to get a lord interest alive let's see if those pilots if they. yes i do think. it is noon russian planes have always been one of. us because i. remember russian plane crash which.

i don't really trust. no i don't well it actually. was for the most part i don't trust their craft. to be honest with you. guessed. it. or the russian aircraft. so my next question is competitive all 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'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 plane city or the companies used to do mostly old ones. because you know even if we take those critical things that we've just mentioned it's picture that emerges is an accurate one on the one hand they point to high level of technology and a high level for liability but breakdowns are rather frequent because of the like of servicing exploits you know at that it depends on the company that operates then right this is also true somewhat often russian made planes are inferior to their foreign made counterparts in that they enjoy less maintenance. we're putting

most serious sampras's on organizing their worldwide after sales service systems 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 passengers. we weren't before the responsibility was we have air 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 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 ability that airlines would be able to operate the plane between schedule. maintenance periods where 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 or

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 it's something we're already doing we when we have been doing this even before we supplied our first aircraft to customers. we've begun talking about sukkot is 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. since the push for c.b.s. 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 over again i see it is our strategy vector to my mind or russia possesses a lot of skills like software development 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 new sheriff russian made in future planes a lot of it's going to i would say with 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 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 study for it they told him is there anything like that innovation. yeah you. know i don't see anything like that all you need is a sufficient amount of skills and experience going to be. 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 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 tonfa was the main manufacturer in this class so what's your plan will you try to make something new on the road so i know you have a plan to income going to more or are you working with the ukrainians 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 if you will of the anton of company in some

other plants in ukraine i see some promise and you know i think that we should cool our resources and afterwards to my mind this may be very effective with the expertise that russia and ukraine have any area of military transport aircraft and i think we can be very successful 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 ukraine 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 especially with the russian engine program of building the su thirty m.

. very successful and you know 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 fledged important shipping producing more than aircraft. were 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 and this year i expect that we'll sign action plans for both programs. i purposed 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 that the room designing on managerial planes is one of the priorities both for you definitely get the full so you all waiting on it should be built but if you were listening as the defense minister gives us

a definite list stuff required characteristics for this plane we will 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 with enclosed space of a spice of a 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 of the first vice president of the russian state aviation building corporation and that's it for now from all of us here will be back with more first and comments i was going on and outside russia until then stay on our t.v. and take care of.

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