![]() ![]() Ukraine was also home to a sizeable network of repair and overhaul plants that could service any major weapons platform or sub-system.The plant that was created by that evacuation and re-assembling of the Malyshev plant, the UralVagonZavod enterprise at Nizhni-Tagil in the Urals, is now Russia’s chief main battle tank production and design centre. The Malyshev plant in Kharkiv was one of the largest tank production centres in all of the USSR and was famous for being one of the largest production sites to be dismantled and moved east to avoid being captures by the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. ![]() The Motor Sich aeroengine enterprise, which is co-located with the Ivchenko/Progress design bureau in Zaparozhye, Ukraine was one of the largest facilities of its kind during the Soviet era and the sole producer of several engines – including those fitted to the leading helicopter platforms of the USSR armed forces. ![]() Capable of designing the mammoth AN-124 Ruslan four-engine heavy cargo lifter and the six-engine AN-225 Mriya that is still the largest aircraft ever built, the company also built thousands of smaller cargo lifters and utility aircraft still in use around the world. ![]() Ukraine’s Antonov design bureau was a unique enterprise within the Soviet aerospace sector.The latter vessel was not completed before Ukraine became independent and was later sold by Kiev to the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) of the People’s Republic of China. The single carrier that was put to sea in the Soviet era and which is now in the Russian fleet, the Admiral Kuznetsov, was built there – as was its sister ship, the Varyag. The only shipyards in all of the USSR that were capable of building an aircraft carrier that could operate short take-off with arrested recovery (STOBAR) fighter aircraft are in the southern Ukrainian city of Nikolayev.Ukraine’s contribution to building Moscow’s massive war machine was considerable and involved several areas of specialisation: The Ukraine defence-industrial complex, usually referred to by the Russian acronym (transliterated) as OPK, was at one time a sprawling and multi-faceted – as well as vital – component of the former Soviet Union’s empire of factories, design bureaux and military R&D centres. Pułaski Policy Paper nr 2, 2021, 11 marca 2021 r. ![]()
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