Denis Manturov visits Experimental Design Bureau named after Simonov in Kazan
18 June 2014, Wednesday
On June 18, Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov and Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov visited the Experimental Design Bureau named after Simonov in Kazan.
The enterprise deals with development and maintenance of remotely piloted aircraft systems, development of air targets, creation of target layout for testing airborne avionics of aircrafts Su-30MK, MiG-29, and С-300, С-400 systems, maintenance and repair of engineered equipment.
The enterprise has got its own production facilities meant for design, production, and testing of models of aviation equipment.
In April 2014 it was renamed for the Scientific Production Association “Experimental Design Bureau named after M.P.Simonov”.
Denis Manturov and Rustam Minnikhanov also looked around the newly constructed production facilities “KAI-Composit” established by OAO Scientific Production Association “Experimental Design Bureau named after M.P.Simonov” and Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N.Tupolev.
Later on, the guests went to the assembly department to see presentation of a long-duration unpiloted aircraft that is being created as a demonstrator.
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