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.
Reminiscence of the Future
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Andrei Martyanov
Andrei Martyanov
Russian industry.
Why PBS Is Full Of...
If it weren't for subsidies there wouldn't be an aerospace industry.
ReplyDeleteNow who is full of... ?
Russia's sole weakness is its obsession with the gold coin fallacy
ReplyDeleteA rational attack vector would be there.