Status of Russian Military Industrial Complex (MIC)

And when it comes to develop new stuff. Most of the time you are right Garry you need to look what others have and start from there. But it is know that Russia nad China often does have innovative approach to certain things and this approach often needs to reinvent the "wheel" totally from scratch. Remember the coaxial rotor system? Remember the legendary K36 ejection seat? The guys here had to throw away the conservative thinking and start from beginning. Scramjet is a perfect example of this. People want to have faster planes? Ok. But instead of making the current jet engines more powerfull how about focusing on developing a completely new engine working on new physical principles. But i have no doubt you know this

Now what i am about to tell you migh sound completely shocking but: Japanese industrial robots are not actually that good.

Which is... you need state of the art electronics industry. You need to have a processor capable of raw computing power ideally equal or even better than best foreign counterpart. Very large portion of your economys destiny lies in this single fact.

I remember that starting arround 2000 there was a huge story that some moscow computer scientific institutedeveloped microprocessor more powerfull that Intel Itanium.

However im not sure to what degree this will be a successfull strategy. However what i am saying here that if they will be carefull enough, they can catch up with the rest very quickly and take over the lead in High technology sectors like the military one is.

Also super-computers were also smuggled into Russia & China; why because they were not capable in those days to manufacture something similar domestically.

That would be wishfull thinking, but no... As said previusly... most sophisticated Russian CPUs are manufactured in Taiwan.

I like the japanese. they might not be the best in induustrial robots, but they often have innovative approach as to how to use and where thoise robots. Elderly people care is one of them.

About the Elbrus. Guys working at the Elbrus CPU were bought by Intel together with their intelectual property. Thats the american style of solving an issue of potential concurent. And also asort of a way of appreciation of ones work and its quality. The fact that intel was forced to buy them tells the rest of us that it was serius stuff.

When it comes to modern processors. There are couple of problems.

They are often used in their second role as kind of marketing the brand of creator. Most of the time you don't need their raw computing power, and most of the time it is technologically not that difficult to make a system with more Tera flops than the one first in the TOP 500.

South koreans are bulding a shipyard in Russia? I didn't know about that. But again i highly doubt that they have some kind of innovative technology Russians don't have so that it will give them huge performance boost and time savings when building ships.

The problem is in japan. Japanese could be as well if they were not that dumb when it comes to Kuril islands matter. They are stubborn - and by the way most of the ordinary japanese people don't care. Its only the goverment making a huge fuss over it and ultranatitonalists. But then again ultranationalists in japan are again Koreans and against anybody else in Japan.

Russia never embraced such practices to create a massive economy. Therefor it can't keep up with the West.

Family members CBI, in which at least 3 children of preschool and school age, to receive financial assistance in the amount of profbyudzheta 1,500 rubles per student child. This 60 children from 32 families.

This decision was taken in July, the company's trade union committee to help large families prepare for the new school year. On the proposal to allocate for this category of funds for the families better prepare children for the school year came the commission for trade union activities among women and children.

The company has fully realized benefits package, including children's issues are resolved successfully. This is kindergarten, and monthly payments, and recreation. In all, 1880 employees of school and preschool children. In accordance with the collective agreement for each of them paid a monthly allowance of 850 rubles. Every summer for the organization of summer camps and recreation of children bought tickets to summer camps. And this year, after changes in the organization of leisure and recreation of children, trade union continues to help parents. Was purchased 70 tickets to a country summer camp "Space" area at Alexinsky II and III shift. In addition, children with their parents relax in the resort of Anapa "Black Sea" and on the basis of rest "Sunny Beach" Dubensky district. In total, this year will improve more than 500 children.

To prepare for the new school year, school buildings patronized number 3 company was assisted in its repair in the amount of 400 thousand rubles.

Russia to Upgrade, Scale Down Gunpowder Production

16:10 11/03/2012
MOSCOW, March 11 (RIA Novosti)

Russia will overhaul its gunpowder manufacturing plants and start manufacturing superior gunpowder by 2016, but overall production will decline sharply, the Izvestia daily reported quoting a source in the Industry and Trade Ministry.



As a result of the modernization program, some of the plants will close and the total number of plants will shrink.



One reason is that some manufacturing facilities are located in residential areas.



Meanwhile, new gunpowder formulas and production technologies are being developed.

Executives at Russia’s two largest gunpowder plants - one in Tambov and the other in Kazan - have declined to comment on the modernization plans.

According to Izvestia, by 2016, the Russian Defense Ministry will reduce gunpowder procurement to 20,000-30,000 tons a year from the current 100,000-150,000 tons.

All Defense Industry Plants Must Stay Afloat - Putin

Defense industry enterprises that are not part of the new rearmament program should not be neglected, Prime Minister and president-elect Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.

The program for the development of the Russian defense industry, prepared by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, does not envision the modernization of industrial plants, which have not been given defense orders under the state arms procurement program until 2020.

“Make sure that these plants are not neglected and left without defense orders or modernization plans,” Putin said at a meeting with government officials on the implementation of tasks set out in his program published during the recent presidential election campaign.

“We cannot do this to the workers at these plants,” he said.

Putin asked Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the defense industry, and officials from with the Economic Development Ministry and the Health Ministry to help with the management of such plants, to resolve any social problems that may arise, supply the enterprises with alternative orders and retrain their personnel.

“We cannot just abandon them,” Putin said.

Putin has made social issues and the improvement of living conditions of the Russian citizens, especially the working class, a priority of his election campaign.