Ukrainian intelligence get access to Rosaviatsia’s secret data: Industry on verge of collapse. [article]

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1. Excerpt:

   > *The Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) has announced a successful special cyber operation, as part of which a large number of classified documents of a structural unit of the Russian Transport Ministry – the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) – was obtained.*
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   > The most problematic areas of Russian aviation are engines and chassis, as well as other important elements, including hydraulic systems, flaps and software.
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   > According to Ukrainian intelligence, Russia also faces serious difficulties with the maintenance of aircraft with a large mileage. Due to the lack of capacity and specialists in Moscow, they are trying to reorient aircraft maintenance to Iran, where the relevant work is carried out without the appropriate certification.
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   > As of March 2022, the Russians had about 820 foreign-made civilian aircraft, and at the time only up to 10% of them underwent uncertified repairs using non-authentic spare parts, whereas “now almost 70% of the aircraft fleet passed such a ‘maintenance’,” the HUR said.
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   > The acute shortage of spare parts has led to the so-called “aircraft cannibalism,” when some planes are disassembled to repair others. According to available data, by the middle of 2023, more than 35% of aircraft in Russia were used to repair others.

2. “You’re grounded.” 🕶️

3. Sanctions? What sanctions?

4. And slowly but surely the threads start to unravel..

5. always a shame when aircraft resort to eating each other

6. What stops them from repairing these aircrafts in China or Turkey?

7. Planibalism

   This is so on brand for russia. They cannot create, but only destroy.

8. All we know, these figures could very well reflect normal situation in Russia.