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sukhoi aircraft is in the studio to talk with al gore know about the future of russian aviation don't miss it. engineering technology two thousand permits to. russian aircraft manufacturing companies are capable penetrating global markets besides famous russian fighter jets several civil projects that could become a success globally and one hundred media. 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 russian aircraft industry. have been dominating much of the world skies comparatively cheap they remain an attractive alternative to more expensive western models. is being tested now and some foreign experts say the t. fifty is better than its american rivals. computer and russians are especially proud because the. russian components besides produce. the company's launching a passenger plane. it's a replacement for planes and foreign brands. so what else is coming from the hangar . maker.

thanks for joining us. comes to mind when you talk about. the recent presentation of a fifth generation fighter jet but the prime minister putin attended his four 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 quite strong explode. and the ground for twenty four percent of the world's military aircraft exports in terms of output is what we manufacture it twelve to fourteen percent of all military aircraft so here we were you. telling me this is that so we do it as any country make more across the americans to 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 law keyed and boeing will keep the wall which mainly provide aircraft for the u.s. department of defense. for the pentagon's cuts i would. always teach in the way it's recently china presented its new phone to 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 their 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 it was still in china was to manufacture a certain number of fear craft with the. and the deal also included some other provisions the possibility of more knowledge in the air craft them developing the use a program further. would you have some questions concerning the way disagreement 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 the world so it's not clear what it's a violation of and lois said to figure that out 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 with the computer. chip. 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 had pentagon is u.s. made aircraft 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 it but all are achievements in the industry are based on our mass production for export well but now the situation is changing. and it is the 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. had to be serious i was. assured no defense minister he's in just trading has already become one of our major customers in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine but we signed contract 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 meet planes in mobile so 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 ours the military. 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 world market spotlights has more that. the pride of russia's aviation industry thing 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 they do ration of it's flight it's set 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 because 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 after almost twenty years of decline the first post soviet besting to play in. the jet one hundred was presented to the international public at last year's paris show however 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 corporation with bars. what started as just supply a pro materials is great too it 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 dedicate the civil segment of russian aviation to keep up with its western counterparts like boeing boss. and now after watching this video i have a question let's compare claims 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 produced because you don't have to 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 the same goes for every onyx. the military industry was leading the way and then it's to acknowledge 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 mounted in civil aviation but on the other hand many things in that ad for civil aviation. for military planes for example boeing seven hundred eighty seven of them but 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 an aircraft manner. we should develop both the military and civil sector. i know that huge company plans to increase the share of civil aircraft some on earth but because so far you make money mostly by making military acromion there and what 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 if we want to succeed and this applies to both military and civil programs and we have to consider the world aircraft market in the reason we have been successful with our military aircraft 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 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 air flawed doesn't want to buy russian planes often theory or quality used it once aircraft was superior to those used by its rivals 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 you had to and they said that health of the planes they buy would be right and the other half knowing. 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 but as for short medium and long range airliners at this point in the united aircraft corporation cannot slow 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 flood is our strategic partner for regional class planes. this should choose what's made this medium range sukhoi superjet project most successful event . tuple if t u three thirty four if i got its name right there's 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 teen years to design a new plane or they'll have to keep it short and. to put some sleighs because

tupolev did everything on its own up while saeco used for into college and. from the very outset so 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 before they had to provide international certificates for the ports they provided for comparable and we had a cost limitations because we have to compete against westerns are mass produced aircraft and in terms of both plants and floetry alone someone believes we came up with a better year with one hundred passenger aircraft for the regional market will if we used a number of new technological solutions that made it competitive fish conclude for example its control systems are the safest in its class it meets the highest international standards and it's more comfortable compared to other regional planes and there is a number of other technological solutions question says. general director of the

whole light company spotlight will be back shortly away after a break so stay with us then. hungry for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

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. sky specials 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 two thousand and ten which means pretty soon deceptive are you keeping up with the timetable that includes who it's going to do we have twelve planes being assembled there to come so 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 plane to your customer getting to your planes we are to supply the first three planes to the airport in our mob you're our

first customers how many have you sold today to just today our stock of orders is there nine hundred twenty points of those already sold yet in a move received advance payments from our customers to some of them how much is the advance payment in relation to the full price also 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 can you get so it's not really important to the company's explicit those but how much does. so that catalog varies between twenty five and twenty eight million dollars. we offer discounts and the market price is subject to. sport let's. try to find out if people here in russia trust

russian aircraft. 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. it's if they try. yes i do think. it is new. technique. because i. don't really trust. no i don't well it actually.

i'm scared. to be honest. and 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'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 that it depends on the company that operates them right this is also true someone 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 of

superjet one hundred projects. 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 military and similar craft it's the manufacturer in 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 to be should whatever the legal aspect to say you'll move through aircraft from flights that has to be for maintenance we must assure such a bill to the. airlines would be able to operate the plane between scheduled maintenance periods the maintenance schedule would 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 but note

something we're already doing when we when we have been doing you see when before we supplied our first aircraft to customers. we've begun talking about sikorsky operation 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. 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 and i see it is our strategy of 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 more trees are emerging as well and all of that makes it possible to increase the cheryl for russian made parts 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 super com rusia 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 don't see anything like that all you need is a sufficient. skills and experience because you can certified almost anything but will 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 of course there's 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 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 your own 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 under 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 projects 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 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 we've also talked about cut the ration with the training 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. partners 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 am. very successful as to you know india produces this aircraft under license with some new and with the multipurpose transport plane program we progressed from

a regular solar by relationship with food fledged gortner shipping producing more than aircraft was the proposals 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 that have a multipurpose 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 what's the room designing on managerial planes is one of the priorities for you definitely get the full so you all waiting on that ship that will put it if you will assume is the defense minister gives us a definite list of required characteristics for this plane it 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 about spicey of thank you very much for being with us and just to remind that my guest in the studio today was the. general director of the oil and make companies and the head of the first wife 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 that it was going on in and outside russia until then stay on our t.v. and take care of.

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