Company blueprints will reach the public quite soon.
"United company establishment will have two stages. Related papers will appear in print in the nearest future.
"What we need is vision. Orientation to the future must reach at least ten years ahead. We are to focus efforts on pioneer technologies for competitive aircraft made of composite materials.
"At present, we are making planes of nineteen types. What do we want with them? Many of these craft are doomed to get outdated in the matter of a year or two, at the latest. Here's only one example. There is an idea to update the SU-25, designed in 1986. What's the point?" reasoned Aleshin.
The government is determined to go on supporting lease programmes for aircraft purchases. A conference will gather to debate the issue, June 24. Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov is expected to attend, he went on.
As Boris Aleshin sees it, Russian aircraft R&D institutes are to host conferences where corporate spokesmen would meet government officials to discuss pioneer projects.
"It is up to R&D institutes to provide venues for government/company talks-the way the thing is done in the United States. Government functionaries who determine financing the military-industrial complex are to talk all issues over with experts, and rely on them for decision-making."
The matter demands R&D councils re-established in the military-industrial complex for governmental and industrial spokesmen to get together and settle involved and disputable technical issues, he remarked.
Next, Russia direly needs a law that would stipulate the extent of overseas capital participation in the national military-industrial complex. "We must do it not only foraircraft-building but for the entire complex," stressed Mr. Aleshin. The share of overseas investment needs a legislative footing. "Meanwhile, we are breaking lances over it on every particular instance. Some want that share at 51 per cent, others think 49 per cent will be enough-and still others see 37 per cent as ceiling."
Russia ought to work out comprehensive laws on its military-industrial complex, the package to include a law on the extent of overseas capital participation, he said insistently.
