At the National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute named Igor Sikorsky” presented new defensive technologies and the development of dual representatives of Kyiv Association of the DA. Co-organizers of the event were the Public Union «Legue of Defense Companies of Ukraine», NTU KPI and the Department of Defence Policy, Strategic Planning and International Cooperation MOU.
League defense companies favor the elimination of the state monopoly on arms exports and the creation of equal conditions for free of weapons on foreign markets as special exporters for state and private defense companies. According to the director of the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Valentine Badrak This will allow Ukraine to significantly increase exports of arms and military equipment, as now, according to experts, our country lost more than 2 billion. Dollars annually due to the state monopoly system MTC. At the same time, the potential of Ukrainian exports of defense capacities of the private companies now estimated more than 3 billion. Dollars a year.
State monopoly system of military-technical cooperation in today’s environment “stimulates” the outflow of capital and the country’s defense technology and hinders the development of armaments, and full rearmament. “There are examples where serious enterprise render production in foreign countries, they can not sell here. Thus, we lose money and intellectual property “, – said Valentin Badrak.