Exclusive-Russia aiming to fly solo without Airbus and Boeing

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MOSCOW (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 and Airbus, 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.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-russia-aiming-fly-solo-090340289.html

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Good luck! Design your ideas of future flight without a chance of making your ideas happen.

[niyad]

2. Over 250 planes a year from basically a standing start? Fascinating.

[doc03]

3. I won't be flying on any Russian planes nt

[RainCaster]

4. Boeing had a large engineering center in Russia

But they had to close it I believe. Now all those engineers can design planes for Vlad. If they are not cannon fodder in Ukraine.