National Capabilities
Ukrainian defense industry is comprised of enterprises of various patterns of ownership which are subordinated to different government agencies, which already participate in government contracts relating to the State Defense Procurement Order, and which are directly involved in or perform sub-contracted works under Ukraine’s international military cooperation programs.
Ukrainian defense industry is comprised of enterprises of various patterns of
ownership which are subordinated to different government agencies, which
already participate in government contracts relating to the State Defense
Procurement Order, and which are directly involved in or perform sub-contracted
works under Ukraine’s international military cooperation programs.
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29 and L-39 airplanes. The airplanes,<br />
which underwent repairs<br />
and upgrades at domestic<br />
factories, entered service<br />
with the Air Force’s combat aircraft<br />
brigades based at Ivano-<br />
Frankivsk, Mirhorod, Starokostyantyniv<br />
and Sevastopol. In<br />
December 2012, for the first time<br />
in many years, the Air Force obtained<br />
a fully equipped combat<br />
aircraft squadron.<br />
Ukroboronservice continued<br />
work under Program on “Bringing<br />
back to operational status<br />
equipment inventory of the<br />
Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Air<br />
20 / Ukrainian DEFEnSE rEViEW / JanUary-MarCH 2013<br />
The level<br />
of funding<br />
for the corvette<br />
program will<br />
grow year<br />
after year<br />
Force’ SAM Troops in the period<br />
up to 2017”. The program envisages<br />
that four S-300PS and one<br />
BUK M-1 SAM systems should<br />
undergo repairs and overhaul<br />
every year up to 2017. As of September<br />
2012, Ukroboronservice<br />
had performed overhaul repairs<br />
on six S-300PS SAM systems under<br />
contracts with Ukraine’s<br />
Ministry of Defense, and repairs<br />
on two S-300PS and one BUK M-1<br />
SAM systems were to have been<br />
completed by year’s end.<br />
2012 saw a definite breakthrough<br />
in restoring fighting<br />
capacity of the Ukrainian Na-<br />
vy fleet. Ship repair programs<br />
had a combined budget of UAH<br />
172 million, and about two dozen<br />
ships and craft had been put<br />
under repairs last year. This<br />
allowed the Navy to set up the<br />
core combat fleet by the start of<br />
2013, according to the Ukrainian<br />
Navy commander, Vice-Admiral<br />
Yuri Ilyin.<br />
The Ukrainian Navy’s submarine<br />
Zaporizhia put to sea on<br />
25 April after 20-year-long repairs,<br />
which was a landmark<br />
event for the Navy last year.<br />
During that same year, the submarine<br />
underwent trials but
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