SARATOV PLANT'S SUCCESSES, FUTURE PLANS REPORTED

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: UFO SPECIAL COLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005516716
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2011
• Case Number: F-2010-00651
• Publication Date: July 8, 1993

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DRAT 930708
SLIM Moscow Russian Television Network in Russian 1430 GMT 8 Jul 93
SUBS [From the "M-Trust" program: Report over video of Saratov Aviation Plant;
figures in brackets denote broadcast time in GMT in hours, minutes, and
seconds
SURJ Saratov Plant's Successes, Future Plans Reported
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2 [Excerpt) [143418] [Correspondent over video of gutted production
premises) It appears that if you are considering production retooling, it
should be global; if you are going to reconstruct, you should do it
comprehensively. This is what has been decided at the Saratov Aviation
Plant. And this is not surprising. Everyone would like to have
computerized production facilities, everyone would like to have modern
production lines up to world standards rather than having to tinker with
obsolete equipment. Thus it is not difficult to understand the plant's
management. They are tired of selling aircraft at dumping prices, when
retooling opens up the rare opportunity of introducing [quality]
certification of all the individual links of the production process, thus
enabling them not just to sell aircraft to other countries, but also to
flood the market with own-production, high-quality spare parts. This is
why the itinerant session of the Ministry of Science Collegium-has
approved the Saratov plant management's plan. [video shows Collegium
members inspecting production facilities]
3 [Correspondent over video of Saratov riverside and Yak aircraft] The
Saratov Aviation Plant, or SAZ for short, produces civilian Yak-40 and
Yak-42 aicraft. Thanks to their reliability and excellent specifications,
these aircraft are much in demand on the domestic and the international
markets. For example, the 120-seat Yak-42, which is the most reliable
aircraft in its class, is very popular with Italian, Indian, Egyptian,
Iranian, Chinese, and other airlines. It is worth mentioning that the
sale of one such aircraft abroad is equivalent to the sale of 15,000 VAZ
cars.
4 People at the plant believe that, in order to meet domestic and foreign
demand, they need radical retooling based on ecologically-clean, and
energy- and resource-saving technologies. These breakthrough
technologies, coupled with new methods of production organization and
production management, will enable the plant to increase its aircraft
production at least tenfold.
5 The creation of this type of production facilities is also the aim of the
"Technologies and Production of the Future" state scientific and technical
program of the Russian Ministry of Science and Technology Policy. [143600]
[video shows Saratov Aviation Plant production facilities, ministry
delegation inspecting plant, various aspects of Yak aircraft, more
extensive views of production facilities)
6 [passage omitted -- interview with Russian Minister of Science and
Technology Policy B.G. Saltykov]
7 [1439371 [Correspondent over video of production facilities] The main
demand made on certified output is that it guarantees a pre-set high
standard of quality and takes consumer requirements into account. The
aviation equipment and new types of aircraft, for example with aerodynamic
bodies which are being built at the Saratov Aviation Plant, are already
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 COO 17 5 4 6 O ag world quality standards. A planned database will make i t
possible to coordinate output quality with the requirements of specific
clients. [143959] [video shows production facilities, part-built
aircraft]
8 [passage omitted -- demonstration of high-precision machine tool
incorporating laser-scale and automated buggy for transporting components]
9 (144121] [Correspondent over video of delegation inspecting the plant's
"flying saucer"] There is no doubt about it, the our entire camera crew
was very eager to see and film the Saratov Aviation Plant's most unusual
design -- the "flying saucer." The "flying saucer" needs no airfield. It
can take off and land with the help of an air cushion on land, on water,
on snow, and in the mountains. The sphere of application of the Saratov
"flying saucer"-will be very wide-ranging. It will be able to carry
passengers and cargo, help fight fires, prospect for minerals, and ensure
normal working conditions for members of expeditions to inaccessible areas
and in extreme weather conditions.
10 Work on the assembly of the new-generation flying apparatus is continuing.
[144155] (video shows model and various aspects "flying saucer" being
assembled]
11 [144156 thru 144400 -- passage omitted on interview with Academician V.N.
Petrichenko of the Ministry of Science on quality control] (endall) 081430
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