“Take a step forward”, or How Ukraine “forgets” about international military contracts
Today the topic of conversation will be completely different. The "state organism" is somewhat akin to the human. And consists of many organs whose purpose is strictly functional. Food, movement, orientation in space and so on. All that makes us a certain biological species. And the country of the state. These bodies, most often, not our merit. They are transmitted to us by our ancestors. And we either develop the necessities for life, or, on the contrary, we do it so that our descendants do not pass on the unnecessary.
In the Ukrainian version of the state there are exactly the same bodies as all the others. Or rather, probably, it will be more correct to say already, there were ... Difference from most other countries precisely in atavisms. Those bodies that the modern Ukrainian state considers unnecessary. Every feeling has its own organ. Nose - smell, skin - touch, ears - hearing, eyes - eyesight, tongue - taste ... Anything, but not any. A sense of responsibility for the future, a sense of proportion, a sense of shame, and many of our other feelings, alas, do not have such an organ. They simply are or they are not.
Hundreds of times in various media, readers have seen a comparison of the potentials that went to the former Soviet republics after the collapse of the USSR. If you wish, you can find a comparison literally in any area of life. From the defense industry to the quantity and quality of maternity homes ... But today we are interested in the defense industry. Or rather, the export potential of the defense industry of Ukraine.
Interests from the point of view of Russia. Anyway, the decades that have passed since the collapse of the decade have made us competitors in the arms market. Almost identical military industry, identical scientific and engineering personnel, identical "Soviet" ideas in promising developments ... And therefore, when concluding contracts, we can not always rejoice at the victories. No one hides that potentially, if it had not happened Maidan, Ukraine would be a serious competitor for our military industrial complex.
Probably one of the most indicative "peremog" of Ukraine from those that suddenly turned into "zradu" is a long-standing contract for the supply of armored personnel carriers BTR-4 to the Republic of Iraq. Let me remind you that the contract was signed by a subsidiary of the state company Ukrspetsexport - the State Enterprise Progress Foreign Trade Company and the General Directorate of Arms and Support of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Iraq 25 September 2009 of the year.
This really profitable and promising contract for Ukraine. Delivery of 420 armored personnel carriers with combat modules "Sail", components, simulators, services. Only at the implementation stage, the country received 457,5 million dollars. And what a promising market has opened ...
Only then, back in the "premaid" period, it became clear that Ukraine was not going to take advantage of the victory. Paradox, but the contract began to "quietly merge" almost immediately. The feeling was created that the Ukrainian side was acting purposefully to its own detriment. The deadlines were not maintained, the quality of those machines that were still supplied to Iraq was at a terrifying level. Many probably remember the scandals of those times. Pick the Iraqi and Ukrainian sides about the quantity and quality of armored personnel carriers. From 420 for the period of the contract exported all 88 units were delivered. But of these already delivered, the BTR returned 2014-th 42 in January. Cracked hull! Old age is no joy. Even for armored vehicles.
Just to understand the horror that the Iraqis have experienced from the Ukrainian "new" armored personnel carriers, I will cite the inspection data of the supplied vehicles by Kharkov engineers. No comments.
From 88 new machines managed to start only 56. From the 56-established BTR independently, without the help of mobile maintenance workshops, started 23 machines. Out of the 56 BTRs that were started by the BTR, 34 could move. On 10 machines the starters were faulty or completely absent (!). Acknowledged defective 4 sight, 8 panoramic devices, 10 fire control system units, 6 guns, 8 machine guns, 11 automatic machine gun grenade launchers. All are recognized as faulty (!) Battery. Iraq independently replaced them with the Chinese. The cracks in the armored hulls of the vehicles were fixed and photographed ...
To calm the conscience of some particularly patriotic representatives of the country of origin I inform you: all the armored personnel carriers returned were quickly “put in good order” and sent to the ATO zone. We assume that Kharkiv citizens are able to, when it is necessary to make high-quality repairs ... For their "viyskosluzhbovtsiv" ...
Some readers probably think about why I would suddenly pick up the old history? Like "hushed up the case." At least there are no special calls for breaking the contract. Iraq today is not up to contracts. There the war is in full swing. Mosul erased from the face of the Earth. And in Ukraine, it seems, prosecutors are involved in this matter. Purely on the "nezalezhnoy scheme". There is a consequence. How it goes for the murder of Elderberry, the murder of Sheremet, the burning of people in Odessa, the "heavenly hundred", the crimes in the Donbas ... Ukrainian prosecutors perfectly assimilated the principle of the work of Khoja Nasreddin. "In 20 years, either I will die, or the emir will die, or the donkey will die ...".
Did not work "hush up". The fact is that Ukraine received an advance payment from Iraq! .. Not as much as we would like, but received. 91,5 million dollars. And this money was successfully "mastered" by numerous structures as payment for services. And now we must return. True, not all. Some 72 million dollars with a penny. But to return ... And from what "pocket" to take?
If it were, for example, Russia, then the usual scheme would work in such cases. It would be enough to refer to the "evil poperednikiv." They plundered, hid in your country. So, ask them. We have nothing to do with it. The Kiev court recognized ... And the fact that the contract was guaranteed by the state of Ukraine does not bother anyone. Today it is a different state!
But Ukraine "stepped on the corn" to Iraq. And, therefore, to some extent, to Europeans and Americans. Therefore, ICD is urgently needed (imitation of vigorous activity). To blame everything on A. Kovalenko (the former head of Ukrspetsexport), on Salamatin (his predecessor), on R. Romanov (the former head of Ukroboronprom, Pergudov (his predecessor), and even Yanukovich does not work. Just because for example, the guarantee letter, which was given by the government of Ukraine under President Yanukovych, was coordinated in several ministries. And who in the government of Azarov headed the ministry of economic development and trade? And today he leads Ukraine?
I wonder who, in the Ukrainian tradition, will be appointed by the new "sacred sacrifice"? Today, for the time being, presumably, the prosecutor’s office is starting an ICD. Investigators went to the Security Council, to the Parliament, to the cabinet of ministers. What for? Do they really hope to find there documents on the "cut" of money from the contract? Or see the hidden money transfer video recordings? We'll see. But the thought of "sacred sacrifice" remains ...
I began an article with an excursion into the "state organism". The main "organ" has always been and remains the brain. It is the brain that gives orders. There is a brain, whose functions “humanize” the organism. There is a spinal cord responsible for the functioning of the body as a biological system. In Ukraine, according to the sensations, both of these brains are "woven" into a single system. And they do everything and ... nothing. Moreover, both brains obey ... hands or another place. On which most often sit.
This is scary. As long as there are those who, without hesitation, carry out criminal orders, there will always be someone who, again, without hesitation, will give such orders. Think about it, those who carry out criminal orders, command those who give them. The circle is closed ...
The death of the Ukrainian "defense industry" is the result of this particular symbiosis. The loss of the country's image in the eyes of potential buyers is not worth 72 million dollars. And not even 100-200 million. Image is much more expensive. The Iraqi contract is only part of the problematic foreign policy commitments of Ukraine. By the most conservative estimates of Ukrainian sources, such contracts today are more than 60.
Export potential of Ukraine in the field of "defense" exhausted? Alas, judging by the latest contracts, about which the Ukrainian media spoke with gusto, Ukrainian politicians, including the president, were broadcasting, yes. Saudi Arabia, Turkey, India, United Arab Emirates, China ... This is not a complete list of the "peremog" of Ukrainian arms exporters. And what all these "peremoga" binds together?
Contracts provide for the creation of jobs ... in countries that purchase weapons. Ukraine remains "with its". And second, most importantly, the contracts provide for the free transfer of Ukrainian military technology to customers ... Not those that Ukrainian science has already surpassed. And those that are relevant today. Those who can bring real income now ...
Brains, of course, not visible. But their absence is immediately noticeable. Or is it just from the side?
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