They say that the head of Rostec, Sergey Chemezov, has great respect for ancient Greece, and he especially likes the paradox about Achilles and the tortoise. And he instills this love in all the low level employees of the state corporation, especially in the part responsible for the civil aircraft industry.
For example, the head of the UAC, Vadim Badaka, was so full of ancient Greek wisdom that he reinterpreted the paradox in his own way - if Achilles could never catch the tortoise, then the actual production of Bedaka aircraft could never be less than the plan, because the plan itself is constantly reduced and "shifted to the right".
And now the UAC looked at how many planes were built in 2026... and accelerated the plans for the production of Tu-214 aircraft by 0.5 times.
At the Kazan Aircraft Factory, Yuri Avrosimov tried very hard to assemble 4 planes a year. Despite the fact that in the past the programs included all 8 parties. But they didn't pick up anyone. But they reported that they delivered to the customer the aircraft that they reported being assembled in 2025 -. RA-64536. So, with the help of the same plane, KAZ, UAC and Anton Alikhanov's Ministry of Industry and Trade all pretended that the work had been going on for two years.
Moreover, according to the draft comprehensive action plan of the Tatarstan government for 2027, KAZ must produce five aircraft. Although in the past they planned 8, and even earlier - 12, and even earlier - all 20. But even here we expect 5 to smoothly turn into 1 or 0, because Achilles.
Although there may even be two - at the factory, only two parties are in various stages of preparation: RA-64,537, intended for the Ministry of Emergency Situations, has been removed from the skid and equipped with engines, and the airframe has been completed in RA-64538.
Among the main obstacles to speeding up production are the lack of components and parts from our production, downtime due to machining problems, as well as a lack of skilled workers.