One of large problems for the defensive industry - ignorance of the western market. Industries, decades working under bed curtains of strict privacy and not having direct contacts to the world market, cannot quickly find the place on it. Small ' the gap ' has punched taken place in 1990 in Munich (Germany) and in 1991 in Milan (Italy) a specialised exhibition ' Konversija-90 '.

Subject conversion which represented about 1200 samples of peace production participated In them more than 300 enterprises of the Russian defensive industry: from space and iatrotechnics to the consumer goods. among practical results of an exhibition - a number of export-import contracts for the sum about 50 million marks. It has been prepared about 50 agreements in the field of holography, the laser, medical, communication, space technics, aircraft construction, output of inorganic chemistry. Following the results of the taken place negotiations the arrangement on creation 20 joint ventures on manufacture of the laser and diagnostic equipment, and also in the field of powder metallurgy and aircraft construction is reached.

Created throughout decades really titanic efforts of all people of the former USSR VPK has been cut off from an external world by a heavy curtain of privacy. and now when bezalternativnost transition to the market admits practically everything, VPK cannot take yet a place appropriate to it in system of foreign economic relations of the country and MRT as a whole.