Media: the European Council rented from a Russian reconnaissance aircraft despite sanctions
United aircraft Corporation (UAC) has signed an agreement with the Council of Europe about the use of the scientific programme of the EU and the Russian spy plane M-RM, said Gennady Belyaev, chief engineer of JSC " Experimental machine-building plant named Myasishchev " (included in the UAC).
" The project is called StratoClim, participate in 28 European organizations from Germany, Italy, the UK and other countries, " says Belyaev.- The project is devoted to the study of the Asian monsoon, bringing air masses from South-East Asia North through India. Hosting of the aircraft in India itself Europeans while to come to a common opinion failed - most likely, the expedition will be carried out from the capital of Nepal - Kathmandu ". The expedition is scheduled for the summer of 2016, test flights To test the operation of the equipment will take place in early 2016 in Sweden. According to Belyaev, the amount of the contract amounts to several million euros, say " news "." We create mathematical models of climate change that help to predict its changes for decades to come, " says Fred Li, head of the program StratoClim, leading specialist of the research center, Julich (Germany).- To do this, We collect data in areas of the most intensive accumulation of air masses in Antarctica, in the tropics. The aircraft can be equipped with different equipment - We use depending on the task to 22 different devices ". Remember, the 5th of December, the EU has amended the conclusion Of sanctions, for example, allowed the supply to the Russian Federation of equipment For oil production, which falls under the punishment, if necessary, destruction of the Fukushima disaster. Relations between Russia and the West deteriorated in connection with the situation in Ukraine. The EU and the US on the background of the progress of the Minsk agreements between Kiev and militias Donbass About stopping the fire entered against Russia penalties against financial, oil and defense industries.
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