MOSCOW. Dec 14 (Interfax-AVN) - Granting rights to designers and producers to export component parts, carry out repairs and service arms might play an important role in Russian hi-tech industry restructuring, Boris Kuzyk, director general of the New Products and Systems holding company, said on Friday.
Kuzyk considered Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions to be gradual and logical in the sphere of the reform of military- technical cooperation with foreign countries.
The currently order of Putin on the military-technical cooperation will enable to solve the toughest problem of Russian military-technical cooperation with foreign customers which is the quick supply of component parts and other additional equipment for earlier supplied arms, Kuzyk told Interfax-Military News Agency. Processing of those supplies goes through the same bureaucratic labyrinths like it happens with final samples of arms, Kuzyk added. As a result the terms of implementation of those contracts are being extended for several months while it takes two to three days for a foreign company to make it.
The most important result in the Putin order implementation will be expansion of arms designers and producers as well as increase of profits in hard currency from the arms export. According to Kuzyk, various enterprises and design bureaux will be capable to directly sign average but profitable contracts with foreign customers without any support from a state mediator. Moreover, the situation will be profitable for the Rosoboronexport state-owned arms trader which is to concentrate on the signing of wide-scale contracts.