What does an Englishman do in a top-secret military institute?
Central Institute of Aviation Motors P.I. Baranova (TsIAM) - basic for aviation and even rocket industries. Due to its enormous reserve and unique experimental base, the institute survived foreign orders in the 90s of the last century. Sparked with developments, went to hypersound. But in two thousandths of bread and he was reached by the raking paws of greedy-stupid reformers of industry - they sensed budget rivers. Therefore, do not be surprised out loud: “Why are there so many Boeings in our sky? Where is our scientific background and new developments? And what are these scientists doing at all? ”
Predators
About eight or ten years ago, Arkady Mamontov released on television screens the film "Predators" about the raider seizure of defense enterprises. And the real organizers of the raider attacks told how it is possible to seize and stop (or obstruct) the activities of any of these enterprises using absolutely legal methods.
Quite by chance among these enterprises, as an example, the first in the list was CIAM im. Baranov. Everything is simple - it is necessary to begin with the substitution of managers for formally thinking crisis managers. And fill-fill-fill organization with your people.
Surprisingly, the Mamontov film was perceived by the team of the ex-vice-premier of the Russian government, Boris Aleshin, as a training, as a plan for action. The aviation science has bent down. From the sixth (!) Approach, it was possible to push through the idea of creating a structure uniting the leading aviation research firms - National Research Center N.Е. Zhukovsky. CIAM has fallen.
The offensive was conducted under the flag of the general economic expediency of allocating state subsidies and minimizing costs. That the country's leadership did not hurt the eyes. Today, the head of the SIC them. N.Ye. Zhukovsky is a true “Alyoshin” Andrei Dutov, he served as his deputy at Rosprom, then replaced the chief in a responsible post and taxied for a short time by the Federal Agency for Industry. A few years later, he was again in the backstage of B. Alyoshin, already in TsAGI them. NOT. Zhukovsky. The year was ordered by the FSUE “Krylov State Research Center”, the leading scientific organization in shipbuilding, where he earned the title “Honorary Shipbuilder”. Apparently, this is why the Minister of Industry and Trade Manturov, representing Dutov when he was appointed head of the National Research Center (SIC) named after N.E. Zhukovsky, where CIAM was pulled in, called him "a man of science."
The question is - what science? Dutov - a graduate of the Moscow Financial Institute, worked in banking structures and immediately from there in 2004-m moved to the head of department in the Rosprom. Historically, in the USSR each branch had its own scientific centers. And the more complex and diverse the problems that they had to solve, the more sophisticated they were. It was a real science recognized by colleagues and competitors abroad. When the emphasis shifted to the organization of communications and the management of industry, these "science-bearing heads" began one after another to disappear from real life.
Hypersound went to the West
Survival of CIAM at the expense of friendship with foreign customers from the USA and France has a negative side. It is not surprising today that the Americans, who had never mastered the problem of supersonic fuel combustion in hypersonic aircraft combustion chambers, suddenly began to declare them as their promising technology. Everything they had somehow surprisingly well developed, eh? The question is - where was the FSB of Russia? Moreover, it is not necessary to go far, at TsIAM with the FSB remand prison in Lefortovo, a common fence.
While scientists from the USA “slept”, more than a dozen of the largest institutes worked on this topic, billions were invested, and as a result, at the end of 80, the real flying GLL — the hypersonic flying laboratory Igla under the Kholod program.
Today, work on hypersound is probably suspended - they say, underfunding affects. But what about our response to the adversary, man-made airguns, missile warheads, hypersonic aircraft? Instead of them - loot and grub for insatiable crooks and rogues?
Survival of CIAM at the expense of friendship with foreign customers from the USA and France has a negative side. It is not surprising today that the Americans, who had never mastered the problem of supersonic fuel combustion in hypersonic aircraft combustion chambers, suddenly began to declare them as their promising technology. Everything they had somehow surprisingly well developed, eh? The question is - where was the FSB of Russia? Moreover, it is not necessary to go far, at TsIAM with the FSB remand prison in Lefortovo, a common fence.
While scientists from the USA “slept”, more than a dozen of the largest institutes worked on this topic, billions were invested, and as a result, at the end of 80, the real flying GLL — the hypersonic flying laboratory Igla under the Kholod program.
Today, work on hypersound is probably suspended - they say, underfunding affects. But what about our response to the adversary, man-made airguns, missile warheads, hypersonic aircraft? Instead of them - loot and grub for insatiable crooks and rogues?
"Pavel Andreich, are you a spy?"
CIAM General Director, Mikhail Gordin
And finally: apofige. It is finished. The leaders in CIAM began to be appointed by directives — across all election regulations, laws, and statutes.
If the previous leader is an expert and a scientist, though also from “Aleshin residents”, five years ago he was at least formally conducted in a competition (albeit already very similar to a parody: with one participant with prudently dismissed most promising candidates), now in CIAM for the post of general director of the SIC them. Zhukovsky sent a former manager of SIBUR concern Mikhail Gordin. He specialized in the production of artificial rubber and never worked in any scientific institution. Plus (!) Has English citizenship. In London, he worked for six years as a clerk in the European representation of the American oil corporation Conoco Phillips. He married there too, three children. It seems that someone decided to mockingly joke: either over the appointee, or over the institute - by combining them.
Where is the FSB looking? Or is he a secret agent of this respected organization?
We should not forget that all developments in the field of aircraft engine construction, including promising projects, go through CIAM. Combat aviation, hypersound, engines for strategic missile carriers, Tu-160M, PAK FA, PAK DA ... Or did we sign that our science has fallen and all hope for an enlightened Europe?
Gordin looks something like the actor Yuri Solomin in the film "Adjutant of His Excellency". The same neat haircut, antennae. Involuntarily, the language asks the famous question-quotation from the film: “Pavel Andreich, are you a spy?” In the meantime, CIAM is in the process of replacing an ordinary telephone network with ip-telephony. For users, this method of communication is convenient and fast, but then what secrecy can we talk about?
Now every word said in the walls of the CIAM buildings will go to the provider and further to the servers and routers that tightly control the well-known NSA and CIA of the USA. Or the echo of the grand scandal after the publication of the next portion of the WikiLeaks documents slipped past the ears of the new CIAM CEO? Or is he in a hurry to get ahead of our counterintelligence? Even televisions are watching their masters today, what can we say about communication systems via the Internet?
NK-93 - victim of an attack on CIAM
"AN" wrote about how CIAM, for purely market considerations, actually hacked down work on the super-engine NK-93. During the war for the institute of the former (up to 2011 of the year) CIAM Director Vladimir Skibin, they were faced with a choice - either a negative review on the subject of NK-93, or the head of the chair. Alas, a respected worldwide scientist chose a chair. True, then, when the war for the CIAM was V. Skibin finally lost, his opinion on the prospects of NK-93 changed to the exact opposite - we must continue to work. The most promising application of the NK-93 engine would be the creation of a scientific and technical basis for the development of aircraft engines with an ultra-high bypass ratio and would allow Russia to return to the world leaders in the aviation engine industry. But it was too late.
A design scheme of our miracle was in demand in the line of promising engines of the company "Rolls-Royce" Leap, already released for flight tests. FSB, where are you? President what is going on?
"AN" wrote about how CIAM, for purely market considerations, actually hacked down work on the super-engine NK-93. During the war for the institute of the former (up to 2011 of the year) CIAM Director Vladimir Skibin, they were faced with a choice - either a negative review on the subject of NK-93, or the head of the chair. Alas, a respected worldwide scientist chose a chair. True, then, when the war for the CIAM was V. Skibin finally lost, his opinion on the prospects of NK-93 changed to the exact opposite - we must continue to work. The most promising application of the NK-93 engine would be the creation of a scientific and technical basis for the development of aircraft engines with an ultra-high bypass ratio and would allow Russia to return to the world leaders in the aviation engine industry. But it was too late.
A design scheme of our miracle was in demand in the line of promising engines of the company "Rolls-Royce" Leap, already released for flight tests. FSB, where are you? President what is going on?
We are no longer enough in ranks of eight ...
The highest form of admission under the regime of secrecy, the new general director definitely cannot have - dual citizenship. Therefore, a possible English spy is forced to leave the ex-general director Vladimir Babkin in the position of the first deputy director of CIAM. He has his own for the "Aleshin" team, it was during his time that the ciam positions began to surrender. On the one hand, he is a scientist who made a career in science, but in 1992, he entered the civil service at the Department of Aviation Industry of the Ministry of Industry of Russia. By 2011, he was promoted to head of the aviation industry department at the Ministry of Industry and Trade. But at least he has no problems with tolerances to the state secret.
With his arrival and to this day, CIAM conducts the entire economy as Deputy Finance and Economic Affairs Elena Bokhanova, which was strongly recommended by the Director of the Aviation Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation and loyal Alyoshin Andrey Boginsky (he now heads Russian Helicopters). Also an economist and financier.
With the arrival of the ladies, the institute's profit indicators went down, the wages of "science" too (at times!). The number of scientists at the institute is rapidly declining, but office plankton has received an ideal breeding environment - ordinary managers without specialized education are assigned salaries at the level of doctors of science. The administrative and managerial staff of CIAM began to swell like a weed. In it appeared new, previously unknown departments and sectors. Lawyers suddenly became as many as seven. More than any other legal advice. There were three (!) Planning department. Grew up a grand and incomprehensible what is making the purchasing department. Immensely inflated construction and repair departments, reaching a number of several dozen people. And this is despite the fact that third-party organizations are also hiring for any such works. The army of cleaners, janitors and workers in the territory grew by an order of magnitude and more. We decided to make redecoration in the office of the general director. Quite a natural desire - the last time the apartment was overhauled was repaired very “long ago”, three years ago, for the previous director. New cosmetics has poured into 8 million rubles.
Sources "an" suggest that the amount is inconclusive. A fantastic division appeared, deliberately planning scientific work. Negotiate any little thing has weeks. There is no "paper" for which it is necessary to collect less than six or seven signatures of approval. Nothing is operatively solved. It is necessary to collect a month for a travel visa certificate.
The deputies of the new CEO, Mikhail Gordin, are 13 people. And all - with three-digit (in thousands) wages, which the ordinary learned people never dreamed of. Assistants become seven. And as much at the chief engineer. Well, a lot more. And all this is done with a significant mina of maintaining mode and secrecy. To no-one-nothing. At one time, even an order was issued. Then they fucked up. Do you recognize the tracing paper from the Mammoth Predators? You can explain this number of deputies with the general director: Gordin is a man infinitely far from aviation engine building, without advisers anywhere. Therefore, among the strange figures in the assembly of deputies there are also real scientists.
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