The Ministry of Industry and Trade has done its best: Russia will be left without drone specialists after the Second World War – expert
If civilian UAVs are not developed, then after the end of the Second World War, Russian engineers and drone operators will scatter across Asia in search of work.
General Director of Avianovatsii LLC Sergei Tovkach said this on air on the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
"The Ministry of Industry and Trade announced a sharp reduction in funding for state civilian procurement of unmanned aerial vehicles," the presenter asked for comment.
"This won't affect those who supply the front; it concerns exclusively civilian government contracts, that is, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, firefighters, and everyone else.
"There was a plan that drones would become more common, and therefore civilian consumption would also increase. But all these plans were dashed by the harsh reality of legislation, introduced by us, that prohibits the flight of absolutely everything ," Tovkach noted.
He complained that the entire world is developing civilian UAVs – for example, in China, heavy drones are already being used instead of cranes.
“We don’t have any legislative basis at all that would somehow allow anyone to use a drone in such a role.
Our Air Code hasn't changed since the 90s. As a result, the civil aviation sector isn't moving forward ; it remains in the same stagnant state.
Yes, our defense industry is thriving. The question is, where will these people go when the Second World War ends? They'll likely scatter to Asia. China is actively poaching our specialists right now.
And after the SVO, people will simply wonder what they should do here, where nothing goes anywhere, where the Ministry of Industry and Trade openly says that it will not support domestic developers , and will waste all its money on importers.
"Those people who are skilled, why would they even stay here? And what are they supposed to gain here? Especially since there's no domestic market for civilian drones, and after the SVO, that's all that's left," the expert lamented.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade has done its best: Russia will be left without drone specialists after the Second World War – expert