– **Foreign aircraft will drop out of fleet – Rostec**
– **Airbus, Boeing planes will never be delivered – Rostec**
– **Russian-made engines, parts to be used – Rostec**
– **No expectation sanctions will be eased – Rostec**
– **This content was produced in Russia where the law restricts coverage of Russian military operations in Ukraine**
MOSCOW, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Russia’s aviation industry will aim to go it alone without the West, using locally built parts to produce 1,000 airliners by 2030 and end a reliance on Boeing (BA.N) and Airbus (AIR.PA), state-owned engineer Rostec said.
The remarks from Rostec, a vast state corporation headed by a close ally of President Vladimir Putin that includes Russia’s only manufacturer of civil aircraft, are the strongest indication yet that the country’s aviation sector sees the confrontation with the West as a permanent schism.
The West’s imposition of the most severe sanctions in modern history after Moscow sent thousands of troops into Ukraine has forced the biggest change on Russia’s economy since the Soviet Union crumbled from 1989 to 1991.
The post-Soviet assumptions of the aviation sector have been turned on their head: foreign aircraft, mainly from Boeing and Airbus, account for 95% of passenger traffic, but sanctions mean there are no spare parts – and no prospect of any.
Reuters reported in August that Russian airlines, including state controlled Aeroflot (AFLT.MM), were stripping jetliners to secure spare parts they can no longer buy abroad because of Western sanctions. read more
But Rostec, headed by Sergei Chemezov who worked with Putin in East Germany in the 1980s, sees the upheaval as an opportunity to build a strong, self-reliant aviation industry.
“Foreign aircraft will drop out of the fleet,” Rostec said in a written response to Reuters questions about its plans and the situation in Russia’s aviation industry.
“We believe that this process is irreversible and Boeing and Airbus planes will never be delivered to Russia,” it said.
Rostec has run some of Russia’s prime industrial, defence and engineering assets since Putin signed a decree creating the corporation in 2007.
Russian airlines, including Aeroflot, splurged on Boeing and Airbus aircraft as they sought to rebuild their fleets after the chaos of the 1990s. Forging a competitive domestic alternative will be difficult.
I thought they still have the stolen airplanes…or is it that they can’t do maintenance on them?
1,000 DC3s
Why do they keep calling these people allies? There is nothing remotely equal betweeen him and Putin. He is a subordinate, nothing more.
good luck with that!
Even the CR project to challenge boeing and airbus seems to have hit the rocks as China wants to keep using westenr parts .
Oh boy, it’s gonna be 1970s Aeroflot all over again.
🤣🤣🤣
Glorious. Can’t wait to find out what electronic components they’ll be using for the avionics.
***Macro***chips ftw!
“Russia aiming to ~~fly~~ fall solo without Airbus and Boeing”
FTFY!
“Russia aiming”
When Russia aims for something, I recommend everyone within a radius of 50 kilometers to hide in basements.
Time to break out the shitty Tupolevs again I guess.
Special ground-level “flying” operations. No crashes here.
There is a mistake in the heading: Russia might build 1000 airliners, but nobody is talking about flying them.
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– **Foreign aircraft will drop out of fleet – Rostec**
– **Airbus, Boeing planes will never be delivered – Rostec**
– **Russian-made engines, parts to be used – Rostec**
– **No expectation sanctions will be eased – Rostec**
– **This content was produced in Russia where the law restricts coverage of Russian military operations in Ukraine**
MOSCOW, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Russia’s aviation industry will aim to go it alone without the West, using locally built parts to produce 1,000 airliners by 2030 and end a reliance on Boeing (BA.N) and Airbus (AIR.PA), state-owned engineer Rostec said.
The remarks from Rostec, a vast state corporation headed by a close ally of President Vladimir Putin that includes Russia’s only manufacturer of civil aircraft, are the strongest indication yet that the country’s aviation sector sees the confrontation with the West as a permanent schism.
The West’s imposition of the most severe sanctions in modern history after Moscow sent thousands of troops into Ukraine has forced the biggest change on Russia’s economy since the Soviet Union crumbled from 1989 to 1991.
The post-Soviet assumptions of the aviation sector have been turned on their head: foreign aircraft, mainly from Boeing and Airbus, account for 95% of passenger traffic, but sanctions mean there are no spare parts – and no prospect of any.
Reuters reported in August that Russian airlines, including state controlled Aeroflot (AFLT.MM), were stripping jetliners to secure spare parts they can no longer buy abroad because of Western sanctions. read more
But Rostec, headed by Sergei Chemezov who worked with Putin in East Germany in the 1980s, sees the upheaval as an opportunity to build a strong, self-reliant aviation industry.
“Foreign aircraft will drop out of the fleet,” Rostec said in a written response to Reuters questions about its plans and the situation in Russia’s aviation industry.
“We believe that this process is irreversible and Boeing and Airbus planes will never be delivered to Russia,” it said.
Rostec has run some of Russia’s prime industrial, defence and engineering assets since Putin signed a decree creating the corporation in 2007.
Russian airlines, including Aeroflot, splurged on Boeing and Airbus aircraft as they sought to rebuild their fleets after the chaos of the 1990s. Forging a competitive domestic alternative will be difficult.
I thought they still have the stolen airplanes…or is it that they can’t do maintenance on them?
1,000 DC3s
Why do they keep calling these people allies? There is nothing remotely equal betweeen him and Putin. He is a subordinate, nothing more.
good luck with that!
Even the CR project to challenge boeing and airbus seems to have hit the rocks as China wants to keep using westenr parts .
Oh boy, it’s gonna be 1970s Aeroflot all over again.
🤣🤣🤣
Glorious. Can’t wait to find out what electronic components they’ll be using for the avionics.
***Macro***chips ftw!
“Russia aiming to ~~fly~~ fall solo without Airbus and Boeing”
FTFY!
“Russia aiming”
When Russia aims for something, I recommend everyone within a radius of 50 kilometers to hide in basements.
Time to break out the shitty Tupolevs again I guess.
Special ground-level “flying” operations. No crashes here.
There is a mistake in the heading: Russia might build 1000 airliners, but nobody is talking about flying them.
Lmao. Again, lmao