Fri, Jan 30, 2004
Mig And Sukhoi To Join Forces
Russian leading
airplane manufacturing companies MiG and Sukhoi recently indicated
they are interested in Russian Vice Premier Boris Alyoshin's
proposal to form a single national aircraft manufacturing company
within the next two years.
"We take great interest in the idea of the unification of all
Russian air forces into a single fist. This is a normal concept and
in the perspective we are ready to participate in the formation of
the single Russian air-holding," a Sukhoi corporation
representative told a RIA Novosti correspondent.
RIA Novosti reported that official advised "before the assumed
amalgamation, it is necessary to settle issues concerning the
increase of volume of state defense order for military aircraft and
to form suitable financial conditions for Russian civil airlines in
order for them to buy Russian airplanes instead of used foreign
aircraft."
According to the Sukhoi corporation representative however,
before the formation of the single company could ever take place,
it would also be necessary to define which factories would be
dealing with production of military aircraft and which with the
civil aircraft.
The MIG company
representative noted in his turn that "if the government decides to
form in the near future a single airplane manufacturing holding
than MiG as a state enterprise will just simply abide with the
decision, since there are no other options for the company." At the
same time, he expressed hope that the MiG brand would be preserved
in the future.
The single Russian airplane manufacturing company will be formed
within the next two years, Boris Alyoshin disclosed in the course
of his meeting with journalists on Tuesday. The company will unite
all the leading Russian companies - Ilyushin, Tupolev, Mig,
Sukhoi.
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