On January 11, the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited the production cluster of the Defense Industry Agency in Tashkent region.

On the initiative and under the leadership of the Head of state, a set of measures is being implemented to reform and comprehensively modernize the national Armed Forces, their gradual transformation into a new army that fully meets modern requirements and serves as a guarantor of state independence and sovereignty, a guarantee of security and prosperity of people of New Uzbekistan.

Thus, in recent years, several training grounds with the necessary infrastructure have been created to increase the efficiency and quality of operational and combat training of troops and to develop modern conditions for increasing their combat proficiency. This work continues consistently.

Along with this, priority is given to modernizing and enhancing the potential of the domestic defense industry, which is rising to a new level. For these purposes, in January last year, the President instructed the transfer of the Defense Industry Agency to the Ministry of Defense and take the necessary measures to develop its activities further.

The agency has launched systemic work to master the production of popular types of military-technical products, acquire and supply modern military equipment to the troops, and modernize existing weapons.

Today, during a visit to the facilities, the President was reported in detail on the measures taken and further plans to increase production potential and strengthen the material and technical base of the Defense Industry Agency.

By the instructions of the Head of state, large-scale construction work, significant repairs, and reconstruction of existing facilities were carried out in a short period based on several technical units of the Ministry of Defense. The equipment repair plant and the Central storage base for automotive equipment of the Ministry of Defense were transferred to the cluster territory.

Enterprises located on the territory of the new cluster were integrated, and a network of interconnected repair shops was created. They carry out work on repairing and modernizing weapons and military equipment, radar installations, optical and electro-optical instruments, repairing small arms and artillery weapons, and precision metal processing.

After getting acquainted with the activity of the enterprises, the Head of state emphasized the need to widely attract advanced technologies into the sphere, create new jobs, and gave instructions for further improving the activities of enterprises.

To fulfill the objectives of the widespread introduction of green technologies into the industry, including defense, and to save electricity, solar panels were installed on the territory of the cluster enterprises. This makes it possible to provide most of the production needs for electricity from alternative sources.

In addition, the Head of state became acquainted with modernized samples of military equipment and weapons, the repair and modernization of which were carried out at the production facilities of the new cluster of the Defense Industry Agency.

During the visit, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief also launched the enterprise’s activities for producing new types of military products. He noted the need to ensure high-quality products and improve the qualifications of engineers and specialists.

Following the visit, the President set specific tasks for those in charge to expand the production capabilities of defense industry enterprises.

UzA