The Russian defense is having problems due to the adoption
Due to the consumed enterprises, the defense industry faced a shortage of engines, electrical circuits, spare parts, writes RBC. Less critical issue?
The Russian military-industrial complex began to feel the problem of acceptance. As writes RBCcontracts are postponed, there are not enough marine diesel engines, there are problems with electronics, repairs, as well as with import substitution of components.
In March, Deputy Prime Minister for Defense Industry Yury Borisov spokethat last year the state defense order was completed by 98%. This year’s figures are yet to be predicted. The military-industrial complex is not only tanks and fighters, as you might think. These are engines for ships, helicopters, electrical circuits and microchips, navigation systems and even fire control systems for tanks – the list of imported components, the availability of which is widespread, is quite extensive. For example, Su-30 and MiG-29 fighters, which worked on French navigation devices, were also left without them.
Electronics is the main pain point, head of the Department of Research and International Relations of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vadim Kozyulin:
Vadim Kozyulin Head of the Department of Scientific Research and International Relations, Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Recent statements by the US Secretary of Commerce come to mind – he said that, to tell the truth, Russia uses chips from dishwashers and refrigerators in its tanks. The reports about this came from the Ukrainians – the Armed Forces of Ukraine dismantled military equipment stuffed with parts from various equipment. A rather sly statement that forms false conclusions, believes Evgeny Gorsky, General Director of Troitsk Engineering Center:
— The defense industry segment is always focused on domestic components, and their share is quite high. As for individual electronic components, nomenclature, chips, transistors, diodes, resistors, capacitors, and so on – there are a huge number of them, hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of items, they are all universal in their own way, that is, some resistors are used in absolutely everything. equipment, installation from a computer mouse and installation of navigation installations on a helicopter. Some components are specialized.
– They wrote that chips from household appliances were found in our tanks. Could this be?
– And if we say that bolts from cars or from playgrounds work in military service? In this sense, there are components that are used everywhere.
At the Kalashnikov concern, RBC said that they were studying the risks associated with the risk, and estimated the volume of imports at their production at 80%. The figure is such that there are fears for the stability of the entire concern. The President said earlier that we would not focus on one import substitution, but so far this is more of a beta version, without specifics. In the publication of the Rostec corporation, they said that they were counting on alternative elections and “parallel imports,” that is, imports without the permission of the copyright holder.
The lack of probability can be found on the shelves, and to find that it’s not so scary, the opinion of Vladimir Zhikharev, executive director of the Union of Gunsmiths of Russia:
Vladimir Zhikharev Executive DirectorUnion of Armourers of Russia
If we return to tanks, then the main manufacturers in Russia – the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant and Uralvagonzavod – turned on Business FM, which are operating normally. At the Chelyabinsk enterprise, they specified that the plant was originally “created as the completion of a cycle with one hundred percent flora and a factory.” Procurement, processing, assembly of parts – all in itself.