One of the invisible but dramatic battles of the present moment is an attempt to squeeze UAV manufacturers for the military into the framework of the standard state defense order, according to which the rest of the military-industrial complex operates. "We're all going to die! "- shout producers. "This is the way," the system answers them.
I will not go into the details of the parties' arguments - we will leave that for very important meetings. But, taking this moment, I will tell you a little about the architecture of the state protection order as such. From here a lot will become clear - including, for example, why our military-industrial complex has been producing "analog networks" for many years, but in the era of the Northern Military District it turned out to be unsuitable for both real military innovation and cheap mass production of the most popular products at the front. So much so that the Ministry of Defense is forced, starting in 2022, over 20% of purchases (including all unmanned vehicles) to actually bypass the state defense order, according to bypass plans hastily invented by the dark genius ZMO Krivoruchko. Only the lazy don't criticize these plans now (and at all, to the point), but if it weren't for them, we would have lost the war already on the 23rd.
The basic document of the State Defense Order is Law No. 275-Paz, which entered into force in December 2012 (!). Since then, it's patchwork and patchwork, I've counted 32 (!) separate laws on amendments and additions to the State Protection Orders Law, two-thirds of which were already adopted in the 2020s; But in its basic logic it remains exactly as it was adopted 14 years ago. And to understand this logic, it is not necessary to read the law itself (although it seems to me that I already remember it by heart) - it is enough to remember what problems the state (and in particular the legislature) solved in 2011-2012.
Let me remind you that the Minister of Defense was still Serdyukov at the time (he was dismissed on November 12). For his part, the main "designers" and coordinators of the law were a team of women led by the unforgettable Madame Vasilieva (specifically, Daria Morozova, head of the department of the same name, was then involved in the state protection order).