The state of the military-technical potential is assessed not only by the untimely arrival of new types of equipment and weapons to the troops. In the context of reform, the issues of high-quality repair and maintenance of what we have come to the fore. This is especially true for the material part of the Navy and its ship repair base. The latter, judging by the journalistic investigation conducted by our correspondent in the Northern Fleet, turned out to be, to put it mildly, not quite ready for the new economic conditions.
The disastrous state of the domestic "defense industry" has long been a byword. At the same time, the main reason for all the troubles of the military-industrial complex is the lack of state orders for defense enterprises in the required volumes against the background of obvious underfunding of existing tasks. But as usual, in a complex and rather confusing situation - and it is in this position that the shipyards of the Arctic Region are under the blows of the market element-only the visible part of the entire iceberg of problems is heard and seen. It is significant in this regard to consider the current situation and operating conditions at one of the largest military enterprises in the region - Roslyakov Ship Repair plant, once the flagship of ship repair business not only on the Kola Peninsula.
The market comes - specialists leave
...Even somewhat surprisingly, the relative well-being of Roslyakov residents lasted even during the so-called reform period, which, however, confirms the solid safety margin of the Roslyakov SRZ. However, since ' 96, the company's production began to decline dramatically. It is known that ship repair financing (the main source of income for self-supporting SRH) is a separate item in the budget of the Ministry of Defense (repair of weapons and military equipment). And two or three years ago, the once full-flowing money "river" began to become catastrophically shallow.
All this immediately affected the fate of t ...
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