Director General of the Russian Aircraft Corporation "MiG" Sergei Korotkov is leaving his post. The main contender for the post he called Ilya Tarasenko, head of the company "Sukhoi Civil Aircraft" (SCAC). In the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) have noted that the short will remain chief designer and vice president of KLA on innovation. The upcoming appointment Tarasenko as head of "MiG" in the KLA did not comment.
- The decision on the interchange was made long ago, but officially the resignation of Korotkov was announced in the KLA 25 August - said the source of "Izvestia" in Aircraft Corporation. - Tarasenko proved to be a good manager and economist. He achieved not only increase output "Superjet", but also contributed to their active promotion of the international aviation market. At the same time Tarasenko, working in the SCAC, not engaged in military aviation and practically not faced with the state defense order.
According to Director of the Center for Strategic Study Ivan Konovalov's resignation from the post of general director Sergei Korotkov, but preserving for him the post of chief designer says that to "MiG" led by the KLA might have been enough serious questions.
- Most likely, there were problems in the organization of work, economic performance and execution of military orders, including foreign - suggested Ivan Konovalov. - In particular, not so long ago, the navy of India reported that quite a number of new carrier-based fighters MiG-29K / KUB fighters are out of whack.
The RAC "MiG" declined to comment.
According to military historian Dmitry Boltenkova, leading in 2011 the Russian Aircraft Corporation "MiG", Sergey Korotkov is unable to solve the main task - to return to its former superiority aircraft of the legendary company, which released at the time such machines as the MiG-21, MiG-23, MiG -25 and MiG-27, for many years formed the basis of the Soviet Air Force fleet and dozens of countries.
- With the arrival of Sergei Korotkov began active promotion of the latest two-seater MiG-35, which was supposed to be a breakthrough project Aircraft Corporation, - said Dmitry Boltenkov. - Test "thirty-fifth" is still going on, and limited to the purchase of Russian VKS 14 older MiG-29 SMT. From major contracts in the RAC "MiG" fighter only delivery to Egypt, one regiment decked MiG-29KR / Kubra recently joined the Russian Navy. But this is not entirely new machines, and modified under the domestic requirements of the MiG-29K, previously supplied the Indian Navy. And more than one regiment has no plans to purchase the navy. Out of "palubniki" and orders from foreign countries.
As Boltenkov noted over the years, long-term competitor "MiG" - Corporation "Dry" - not only completely filled park their cars VKS Russia, but also put a few hundred Su-30 to foreign customers. And interest in the latest Sukhoi Su-34 fighter Su-35 have already shown several countries.
Sergei Korotkov, one of the few top managers of the Russian aircraft industry, passed the way from a simple design engineer of the third category to the general designer of the KLA. After graduating in 1983, the faculty of "Aircraft and Helicopter" MAI, he was sent to the OKW "dry" as an engineer-constructor of the third category. After serving in the Soviet army in 1988 Korotkov returned to OKB "dry", where he worked until 2011, successively occupying the posts of chief designer to the first Deputy Director General. In 2011, Sergei Korotkov headed RAC "MiG", at a time when the corporation was carrying huge losses for the year reached 1.4 billion rubles. In 2013, the company has straightened economic performance, a profit of 50 million rubles. Improved performance was due to an advance of the signing of the contract and on the supply of Russian Navy more than twenty deck fighters.
The JAB noted the personal contribution to the development of Korotkov's military-technical cooperation and the formation of a "stable relationship of trust with the leaders of key countries - consumers of Russian aircraft." At the beginning of 2016 the volume of direct inmates RAC "MiG" contracts with foreign customers is more than $ 5 billion, highlighted by the KLA.
The corporation also noted that it Korotkov was chief designer of the Su-34, which has proven its highest performance in the recent operation in Syria.
