Russian president Boris Yeltsin has signed a decree calling for the establishment of a consortium to combine 12 Russian production plants and design bureaux involved in MAPO MiG aircraft programmes.
The level of integration which will take place is not yet clear, but company officials say that the arrangement will be "more relaxed" than that pertaining to the merger between the Mikoyan design bureau and the Moscow aircraft production plant MAPO, which took place a year ago.
The new organisation is to be called VPK MAPO, which stands for Military Industrial Complex.
Helicopter design bureau Kamov has joined the new organisation hoping to benefit from the export rights that MAPO holds as a registered weapons exporter.
Source: Flight International