Where will Manturov find 700 meters of a “stolen” runway?
As it became known to the correspondent The Moscow PostThe other day, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev said that the cost of the Baikal, declared by the manufacturer, was reduced by almost two times after Vladimir Putin instructed to speed up the creation of this long -suffering car: a few days ago, the board cost 455 million rubles, now announced a new price – 260 million rubles.
And the runway was also “circumcised”: now the “Baikal” will accelerate (if given) on a concrete of 350 m, and not 1050 meters, as was originally conceived. The new terms for the supply of a winged car are also stipulated.
Well, the genie is from the bottle, the old man Hottabych, as if resting! Turn on the stopwatch?
Dreams of Yuri Trutnev
Yuri Trutnev said that after the presidential order, manufacturers also improved the technical characteristics of the aircraft. Instantly!
And the strip became three times shorter.
He was shared with the media: “We were presented with 1050 meters. I didn’t know what to do with it, because we have only 33 lanes in the Far East. And all the rest are not suitable. For everyone else, no“ Baikal ”could not sit down. They told me: no, 350 meters” … about this, in particular, he wrote about this “Kommersant”.
Vladimir Putin demanded to launch the serial production of Baikal aircraft in the near future: the cost and technical characteristics of the aircraft should be competitive, and the price of flights should be affordable for citizens.
The development of the aircraft is engaged in the Ural Civil Aviation Plant. And the supply of aircraft to the airline was to begin in 2024. But in May, the Government of the Russian Federation shifted the date for 2025.
First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov, the other day, said that the current target period of creating the Baikal aircraft is 2026!
Denis Manturov. Photo: https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/5F03299A794743E0DB1F42
He explained the displacement of the terms of manturi with the need for import substitution of the engine and a screw of the aircraft due to the departure of the nursing partners.
Trutnev against Chemezov?
Here, in connection with the latest events around the Baikal aircraft, we must remember what scandal had a place to be at the Eastern Economic Forum. And this scandal, most likely, can deepen the old conflict between Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev and the head of Rostec Group of Companies Sergey Chemezov.
Even at this forum, Vladimir Putin drew attention to the constant displacement of the dates for the launch of the Baikal aircraft.
Yuri Trutnev. Photo: https://www.rbc.ru/finances/04/09/2017/59acf2519a79473eab258bf5?fromtg=1
In response, Yuri Trutnev said that in order to accelerate development and production, it is necessary to change the contractor. Contractor-Ural Civil Aviation Plant (UZGA), 75% minus one share belongs to the technodynamics holding. The remaining 25% plus one – for the Rostec Civil Code.
Recall that the aircraft production program was launched back in 2023. The aircraft should change the outdated model “An-2”.
But will the contractor change help? Why did Trutnev make such a statement? After all, it is obvious that the change of the contractor can even tighten the production of aircraft.
Recall that between Chemezov and Trutnev there was previously a conflict for curators over the Almaza company Alrosa: most of which belongs to the state. This was reported Utnews.
Sergey Chemezov. Photo: https://rostec.ru/news/pozdravlenie-generalnogo-direktora-rostekha-semezova-s-dnem-pobedy/
Trutnev won that conflict: he oversees the Diamond Office.
But the news is still in the subject: already the new head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Anton Alikhanov (who changed Mr. Manturov) argues with Yuri Trutnev about the replacement of the contractor to create an airplane.
Mr. Alikhanov believes that the change of the contractor will lead to courts and fines, which will eventually delay the terms of implementation of the project.
Anton Alikhanov. Photo: https://kaliningrad.rbc.ru/kaliningrad/21/12/2021/61c17985947555EB80818D
Dance under the pipe of Manturov?
Everywhere your people?
But according to some information, Mr. Trutnev could entrust criticism of the Uzga in order to stimulate Chemezov and Manturov to work more responsible.
Trutnev’s conflict with Chemezov also implies a conflict with Manturov.
Recall that Manturov, along with Chemezov, oversees the development of aircraft construction in the scale of the whole of the Russian Federation. And he himself worked at airlines: he was the deputy general director of OJSC Ulan -Uda Air Aviation Room, and later as the commercial director of the helicopter plant named after Mile. But where does these facts? They say that Mr. Manturov can be a hidden beneficiary of a whole series of airlines of the Russian Federation. And, possibly, Uzga?
Ural Civil Aviation Plant. Photo: https://vk.com/wall-153149513_2520
And how can one not recall the scandalously famous banker Viktor Grigoryev: he previously worked as deputy director in the defense industry, which was oversee by Sergey Chemezov. And the head of the enterprise in those years (and this is 2005) was Denis Manturov.
And so Yuri Trutnev, an influential Russian official convinces to pick up an expensive project from Uzga. 5 billion rubles were allocated for the board and design of the side!
“Antique” model
Recall also that the LMS-901 is based on the “antique” (70s) project of light-engine L-410 Czech manufacturer Aircraft Industries.
And, by the way, earlier the UMMC belonged to the UMMC Iskander Makhmudov and Andrei Bokarev.
Iskander Makhmudov. Photo: https://www.vedomosti.ru/business/galleries/2019/03/05/795680-Bogatie-russkie
Initially, they produced the L-410 on the basis that they also owned the Czech manufacturer: Makhmudov and Bokarev began the project of the Baikal aircraft with the preparation of project documentation by the Baikal Engineering company (subsidiary of Uzga).
It was this design that became the main one for Baikal: this is not a development from scratch.
I would like to believe that the story of the Baikal aircraft will end not with new intrigues, but to accelerate the work on creating an airplane so necessary for the country! Small aviation is needed in Sakhalin, Kamchatka, in Siberia, in the Arctic zone. And 28 thousand settlements do not have access to ground transport networks at all.
In the new hardware struggle, Yuri Trutnev again “drove” Sergei Chemezov. And for his part – “acceleration” was given by Vladimir Putin. Frightened, apparently?
But how will our “good fellows” ultimately make the Baikal aircraft: now almost twice cheaper, and even with a “trimmed” runway? Or will they end up on this runway?
