Arms production in Ukraine can be compared to a handicraft process in a garage, when “Uncle Vasya sharpens a rocket by hand with a file.” Former Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexander Kuzmuk stated this on TV channel 112, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The former head of the Ukrainian military department clearly knows what he is talking about - it was under Kuzmuk in 2000 that a missile unsuccessfully launched during an exercise hit a residential building in Brovary, and in 2001, during an exercise, Ukrainian air defense shot down a passenger plane over the Black Sea.
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As Kuzmuk explains, it is impossible to produce modern weapons using the equipment that is left in the Ukrainian military industry.
“There is one thing that no one will say - tell me, can our Ukroboronprom produce modern weapons like Javelin, fifth generation, having fixed production assets of the second generation?
Yes, we have a garage assembly, practically in the garage! This can't happen. If the weapon is high-precision, it must be assembled by qualified workers using super equipment, which, unfortunately, has not changed.
It starts with this, and not with the fact that we make a rocket, and Uncle Vasya, a turner, sharpens it by hand with a file,” said Kuzmuk.
As PolitNavigator reported, the day before Security Council Secretary Alexander Turchinov announced the imminent start of production of Ukrainian Vilkha missiles