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Ukraine's aviation industry is spreading its resources too thinly for comfort, military expert Serhiy Honcharov has said. He lists 12 major aviation projects currently in progress at a time when the country produces less than 10 planes a year. The following is the text of the article by Honcharov published on Defense Express web site on 24 June:
Aircraft industry obsession with giant schemes: bloated priorities list may destroy domestic aviation building. This is the belief of the director of military and energy programmes of the Political Risk Assessment Centre, Serhiy Honcharov. In his research on problems of the Ukrainian aviation industry, he indicates that the quantity, scale and direction of research and experimental design work in the aerospace sphere still maintain the character of a sort of "great power mentality". Being more characteristic of the scientific production complex of a superpower than a medium European state with fairly limited economic and financial possibilities and an extremely moderate internal demand for such hi-tech production, eroded priorities may become a stumbling block for the development of the aviation industry.
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