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Sunday, October 29, 2023

About This Plane... — Andrei Martyanov

Russia continues with her program of updating IL-96 line, as an intermediate wide-body solution, to IL-96-400M. This is the first aircraft of this limited series doing its take-off regime runs yesterday.
Its four engines are advanced PS-90A3--a further development of venerable high-bypass ratio PS-90A. This aircraft is fully Russian made, from systems to avionics.
 The Russian commercial aircraft industry is self-sufficient and unaffected by sanctions.
And here we are, in the new geopolitical and economic reality and here is the trick--there is ONLY one country which can and does provide, completely out of own resources, the alternative to Western commercial aerospace giants and you already guessed it--Russia.

Maybe not just a gas station with nukes. 

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2 comments:

  1. If it weren't for subsidies there wouldn't be an aerospace industry.

    Now who is full of... ?

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  2. Russia's sole weakness is its obsession with the gold coin fallacy

    A rational attack vector would be there.

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