Ukraine cannot launch Turkish drones, but is ready to produce its own - academician
Ukraine purchased attack drones from Turkey, but they were never put into operation, and the promised joint production of them was not created. At the same time, Ukraine itself has its own developments in this area.
This was stated at a round table in Kyiv by the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Institute for Security Studies, academician, first vice-president of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Vladimir Gorbulin, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Last year, the Ukrainian Institute for Security Studies presented a number of high-tech areas for priority rearmament. These are communication lines, ethereal aviation systems, and ground-based maritime unmanned systems. In all these areas, private companies cannot take steps forward without government participation.
It’s one thing to develop a sample, another thing to organize its production.
For example, Ukraine bought Turkish attack drones for a lot of money, which have not yet been put into combat operation in a year. Joint production has not been created, as was discussed at the beginning of such a project.
On the other hand, unmanned platforms, both airborne and ground-based, have appeared in Ukraine. In Ukraine there are medium-range missiles produced by Luch Design Bureau. I think that today, to some extent, there is competition between the Luch Design Bureau and the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau. And this is an encouraging situation,” Gorbulin assures.
“Only because in Soviet times there was serious competition between different design bureaus, the USSR was able to reach the level of the United States,” he recalled.
According to Gorbulin, the state, represented by the relevant ministry, could choose between the developments of private companies, which could be further developed and put into mass production.
“This would significantly reduce the production time of these weapons and would allow them to be tested immediately,” argues the Ukrainian scientist.
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