Adviser to the First Deputy Director General of the KRET, Vladimir Gennadyevich Mikheev: «I would like to dwell on some numbers about the results of 2017. By the end of 2017, we increased the total aggregate revenue by 19% (to 139.9 billion rubles). a jump of 2.4 times to 16.1 billion rubles. KRET is a serious taxpayer. For the past year we paid 14.5 billion rubles of taxes (+ 13.2%) to budgets of various levels. Over 400 million rubles were the expenses on social programmes. And why were such indicators achieved? Mainly we’ve reached such indicators because we are constantly engaged in the re-equipment of production. For the past year, we invested in research and development about 10 billion rubles.

More than 2 billion rubles, we additionally invested in the diversification of the production. For example, many of the developments from what is shown here as instruments for aviation are used in the field of medicine. These are the sensors of intraocular pressure, the monitors of the state of the vital activity of the organism "Ritmer", the lung ventilation apparatus, etc. Many of our developments, both in the field of radio-photonics, and in the field of lasers, optical and various other systems, are used both in medicine and in transport, and in oil production, and in the same engine management systems of a conventional car. The same indication on the windshield is not only on the aircraft. We are going at a serious pace in preparing the transition of our domestic automotive industry to electric vehicles. We are now doing a number of large charging stations "Fora", and in the near future in Moscow we will open several of them. We will show that these are innovative, modern projects that allow us to look to the future.

When we are engaged in import substitution, we are talking only about innovations. At us now about 22% of all production is new development. Meaning, that in a year we update almost a fifth of our product line. And to renew this line, scientists are needed. At us collectives are actively rejuvenated. Today it becomes quite prestigious to work in our company. This is already, well, like, modern serious production. A lot of young people have come and are working for us. And it's not just that. In the area of ​​60-70 departments in specialised institutions of higher education train specialists for us. We have always been told that we have low labor productivity. Due to this, it is possible to raise this productivity. Many people working in our company now have higher education. Over the past year, which is very remarkable, we have raised labor productivity by 42%. This is actually a serious figure. Previously, in terms of labor productivity, we lagged far behind foreign enterprises, now we are catching up. The average wage at the Concern's enterprises increased to 46.1 thousand rubles.

Depending on the type of aircraft, in this case the helicopter, the average degree of KRET participation is from 68 to 95% of all electronics. All onboard radio-electronic equipment for the development and production of KRET enterprises. And for military helicopters - from 62% and also to 95%. Meaning the fact that domestic helicopters are mostly stuffed with our electronics. And the requirements for this electronics are the toughest. We believe that for the life cycle of a helicopter, we must completely replace all on-board radio electronic equipment 3 to 4 times, because the "electronic stuffing" is developing more dynamically than the carrier itself.

In addition, we are changing not only electronics, but also the ideology of the pilot. Recently we transferred one of the countries a modernised helicopter. The pilots were very surprised that it turns out that this helicopter can fly without touching the handle, go out to the point in the daytime and at night ... Meaning that the helicopter becomes suitable for any kind of weather, the effectiveness increases significantly, the risk of the human factor decreases. The weakest link in any aircraft, on a helicopter in particular, is a person. He does not have time at a speed of 340 km per hour and at an altitude of 15 m to fly a helicopter during a storm or a storm at night. We understand that this is beyond the capabilities of a man. So, you have to rely on the electronics more often. That’s why there is more and more electronics on the helicopter. And the person, including the pilot, is also one of the universal blocks of the system. Therefore, we must know and his condition, how he feels and when it should be disconnected from this contouring control. We are working on this too.»
 

The Deputy Director General of KRET, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Givi Ivlianovich Dzhandzhgava: «We are now paying great attention to a high-speed helicopter. The means of counteracting so much now that the near deployment of helicopters to a scene of operations is simply dangerous. And the reaction should change. At the same time they should arrive in time to the place of interaction. The high-speed question plays a big role in this. We are also working out the issues of working in close cooperation with small UAVs devices for low-altitude work, so that the helicopter could be flying with terrain following. Then the security to some degree is guaranteed. Now our task is to study the ideology of the helicopter. There we see the interest from foreign customers and Russian armed forces.

The interaction of helicopters in the tactical theatre of military operations at low altitudes, as I have already said, will be carried out jointly with the unmanned facility. It introduces such a thing as network centrism - that is, the coordinated actions of a large number of helicopters, maybe even other kinds of troops, combined to perform specific tasks. This is now a cornerstone task throughout the world, because at the expense of such network system approaches, it is possible to increase efficiency even in the existing fleet of helicopters. Not constructively expensive means, but at the expense of coordinated actions. The usual reprogramming of the artificial intellect of a modern helicopter, the same as Mi-28, Ka-52, allows at times to increase its combat effectiveness. That is, he will support fundamentally new types of weapons, fundamentally differently see the situation and help the pilot.

This applies to unmanned aerial vehicles. Still, now we understand that future aviation should be unmanned. And only on one helicopter in the group there can be a pilot who, probably, will manage this group, which will allow both to save human life and increase combat effectiveness. And in general, the effectiveness of unmanned aerial vehicles immediately increases significantly only because in a modern helicopter up to 30% of the equipment is only used to ensure the life of the pilot. Even simply, instead of this equipment and the pilot himself, roughly speaking, you can pour fuel, take extra weapons, install other equipment useful for the task.

The main thing is not to stop half way, as we had before. In the 80s, an unmanned aircraft was built on the MiG-21 base, and it already flew. But then there was not enough foresight, and it was decided to suspend the project. Now we are in the role of catch-up. Or the same hypersonic missile, the X-90, which was created in the 80's, and then the work was stopped. Now we have to return to the topic of hyper-sound. We have some way to break through and stop.

Right now we are developing a program of basic critical technologies. This is the State Development Program 2017-2025. If this program is approved, by 2025, we should not just try these technologies, but provide production technologies and the reproduction of these ideas. Therefore, this program is now extremely important. It is waiting for its time, according to the strategies that the President has written and signed. These are basic, critical technologies and we need to make this breakthrough.

As for the complexes that can manage a group of aircraft, this is already being practiced on a number of existing helicopters. The same Ka-52 is both a combat helicopter and a command post that manages several combat vehicles in the air. At us the same MiG-31 for a long time operates and other planes. Work in the group has long existed, but in the unmanned version this is another task.

According to the experience of the use of aviation equipment in Syria, the main direction of KRET's work is the intellectualisation of combat equipment management. We must very accurately know the external situation, our condition and produce a fire defeat with high accuracy. For example, now the next stage of introduction of new developments on the Su-34 is being implemented, which will sharply increase the accuracy of the use of weapons.

The second question is the intellectualisation of the aircraft. So that the person is not distracted, there was a corresponding load, balanced decisions were taken in critical situations. Well, what I was talking about is group action, which gives more effectiveness. Where single objects were used, there was one effect where a group was planned and used in advance, another. And if it is planned in the process of accomplishing the task, it will be even more effective activity. These are the areas of development that are taken into account in the program of creating basic critical technologies.

Plus, we clearly need to understand this is the provision of completely autonomous combat operations. Because, in case of contact with an equal opponent, all communication channels will be suppressed. We understand that there will be no satellites, there will be no landmarks. Therefore, everything should be aimed at maximum autonomy, on high-precision navigation. And here it is necessary to make maximum use of the most advanced technologies - this is now the main basic direction.

And an increase in the capabilities of the so-called technical vision systems. Because the pilot in smoke, in the fire, at night, in a thunderstorm sees the range, per say, several hundred meters, at best several kilometres. But in reality it is needed tens or hundreds of kilometres to be observed. This requires systems of technical multispectral vision, locators, cameras, ultraviolet, lasers, etc., and all this should work in a complex. Here at the exhibition a simulator with a helicopter "glass" cockpit is presented, where you can see the world through the eyes of a helicopter world. This is the technical picture, where against the background of a geographical map of the terrain, in the multispectral range, all objects are determined and automatic targeting is in progress. The pilot can intervene, for example, replace the target, replace the weapon, thereby increasing efficiency. In addition, it is safety and reliability - it provides a low-altitude flight in any conditions, entering and landing at any point. Artificial vision is very precise».

Concern Radioelectronic Technologies (KRET) is the largest Russian holding in the radio electronic industry. Formed in 2009. It is a part of Rostec State Corporation. The main areas of activity: the development and production of systems and complexes of avionics for civil and military aviation, airborne radar stations, state identification (GO) facilities, electronic warfare complexes (EW), measuring equipment for various purposes (IA ). In addition, the Concern's enterprises produce modern household and medical equipment, equipment and control systems for the fuel and energy complex, transport and machine building. The Concern includes more than 65 scientific research institutes, design bureaus and serial plants located in the territory of 29 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The number of employees is about 43 thousand people.