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He called Terekh's initiative, which has already registered the corresponding trademark, "at least an unfortunate joke."
Fire Point defense-tech cofounder Iryna Terekh spoke about creating a community with the tongue-in-cheek name MILFtech, whose goal will be to overcome gender stereotypes, support women in STEM, and attract new personnel to the domestic defense-industrial complex. In a new vlog by marketer Andriy Fedoriv she noted that FP employs 7500 people, and only 15% of them are women, and added that the idea for the community began as a joke but later became a serious social and educational initiative.
According to the speaker, in the future a special manifesto will be published under the MILFtech brand, a support community will be formed, and engineering education among girls and women of all ages will be promoted. By the way, Terekh has already registered the corresponding trademark — back on 16 March.
The Anti-Corruption Center criticized the initiative, calling it "at least an unfortunate joke." Director Vitaliy Shabunin said that over the past 1,5 years Fire Point received 107,4 billion hryvnia from the state just for drones, and published a document confirming this. He emphasized that he supports the company's efforts aimed at developing Ukrainian ballistics, but against the backdrop of such statements from a company that receives colossal state revenues, hopes for that are growing ever smaller.
"Their new initiative — MILFtech — looks at best like a very unfortunate joke. Especially against the backdrop of constant air raid alerts," Shabunin writes. "... This clownery leaves ever less hope, but adds ever more cold anger."
At the end of August United24 Media journalists reported that the factory for producing solid rocket fuel that Fire Point is building in Denmark near the Skrydstrup airbase, where F-16 are based, has tripled in price. Initially investments in this project were estimated at about 58 million dollars, and now its cost has exceeded 175 million dollars.
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