What to do while in Ukraine

Despite the long-term lack of state funding since Ukraine's independence, Ukrainian airlines have made significant strides in the domestic and foreign markets with reference to Defense Express. Thus, according to the head of JSC "Motor Sich" Vyacheslav Boguslaev, for over 30 years of work, domestic companies have developed 12 aircraft engines and their modifications.     "We have created 12 new engines in just 30 years of Independence," said the head of Motor Sich. Vyacheslav Boguslaev noted that the state enterprise Ivchenko-Progress took an important part in this complex work. Photo: SE Ivchenko-Progress     "A number of engines have been designed by Progress Design Bureau without any state support," he said. It will be recalled that the Ministry of Strategic Industries of Ukraine recently published a draft "State Targeted Scientific and Technical Program for the Development of the Aviation Industry for 2021-2030" which provides for the pro...

   The sailing yacht Joseph Conrad, built in 1916, was met in the port of Odessa.      “A little sensation in the port of Odessa: Joseph Conrad sailboat suddenly opened the yacht season. On Sunday, March 14, 2021, the sailing superyacht Joseph Conrad (Build Date - 1916, L = 37m, Flag - Marshall Islands) entered the waters of the port of Odessa. Pilot Ihor Boyko and pilot trainee Oleksandr Kuznetsov moored the ship in Nova Harbor and moored it at berth G17 of the sea station. There are 5 crew members on board the yacht, ”the AMPU said in a statement.   Epidemiologists, according to the regulations, checked the health of the crew and the relevant documents, on Tuesday the crew members will have to pass PCR tests for coronavirus, after which they will be allowed to go ashore. According to preliminary information, Joseph Conrad arrived in Ukraine for the next renovation which will be carried out at one of the Nikolaev ship repair enterprises.  ...

   This story might never have been what we know it today if it weren't for the Swedes. If in August 1782 1,200 Swedes, who founded the settlement of Staroshvedske in Tavria, had not gone to the south of Ukraine, and if the Ukrainian Larysa Boden had not gone to conquer Sweden in the early 2000s. Were it not for these two, at first glance, unrelated historical facts, in 2018 there would be no factory in the village of Lyubimovka for the production of designer carpets, which are now sold in 29 countries. The modern Swedish community lives in the Taurian village of Zmiivka, not far from Kakhovka. The village of Zmiivka, where about 100 people now live, arose on the site of the settlement of Staroshvedske. Descendants of the Scandinavians have preserved here the old religious rites of their ancestors. Among them are even those who still speak the Swedish language, which was spoken in Sweden only in the 18th century. Near Zmiivka is the village of Lyubimivka, where the factory of ...

   The Igor Sikorsky KPI is launching the School of Professional Development of Design Engineers. The head of the State concern "Ukroboronprom" Yury Gusev reported about it, transfers UMP. The School of Training of Design Engineers was named in honor of the outstanding aviation designer Oleg Antonov. The relevant agreement was signed with the rector of the school Mykhailo Zgurovsky.     “This event is only one step in the general map of large-scale restructuring, which was started in Ukroboronprom, but it is a very important step! After all, it directly concerns the model of creating new types of weapons and military equipment at the enterprises of the Concern and in the defense industry of Ukraine, ”Yuriy Gusev wrote. Before Oleg Antonov's birthday, on February 7, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky instructed to launch a special training program for this school within three months. According to Zelensky, ordering the first An aircraft for the Armed For...

   On multi-purpose aircraft An-72/74 it is proposed to replace the auxiliary engines TA-12 and TA8V made in the Russian Federation with domestic AI-450-MS with reference to UMP. The Kharkiv State Aviation Production Enterprise has already carried out modeling and prepared technical documentation. The state-owned enterprise received a letter from the State Aviation Company Ukraine asking them to consider replacing the Russian power plant with a domestic one on the An-74TK-300 aircraft.     “We have already done this work, we have already done the layout, we already have all the technical documentation. Decisions need to be made, ”said Serhiy Zadorozhny, head of the state-owned enterprise, at a meeting of the subcommittee on defense industry and technical modernization. State Aviation Enterprise "Ukraine" is a company that provides and performs air transportation by special flights of senior officials and official delegations of Ukraine and other countries in Ukr...

   The Ukrainian satellite for remote sensing of the Earth with an optoelectronic telescope with a meter resolution of Sich-3-0 can be built and put into orbit by 2025-2026. This is stated in the story Security Talks TV channel Apostrophe TV, with reference to UMP. According to Konstantin Bilousov, Chief Designer of Spacecraft, Complexes and Systems at Yangel Design Bureau, "all its proposals are taken into account in the draft Space Program of Ukraine, which is currently being considered by the relevant state institutions." Currently, the satellite has already been designed by Pivdenne Design Bureau. According to the plot, “the spatial diversity of Sich-3-O should be up to half a meter. With such a spatial difference from Earth's orbit, one can already observe a car or a crowd of people. ” Such characteristics will allow to use the remote sensing satellite for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, according to the plot, the satellite Sich-2-1 (Sich-2-30), wh...

   The National Security and Defense Council has considered the issue of returning the Motor Sich engine company to state ownership - it will be returned in the near future. The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said this at a briefing following the meeting of the National Security Council with reference to Ukrinform .     "We are talking about the Motor Sich enterprise in Zaporizhia. To date, a corresponding decision has been made, according to which the Motor Sich enterprise will be returned to the Ukrainian people, to the ownership of the Ukrainian state in the constitutional way in the near future, "Danilov said. According to him, each case when the enterprises of the defense-industrial compress strangely found themselves in private hands will be considered separately.     “And if the enterprise is strategically important for us, we will do it legally (return - ed.). Those people who have invested money, t...