In the wake of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the West imposed crippling sanctions on Russia's aviation industry. While there may be ways around many of these sanctions, they have been devastating to Russia's ability to produce aircraft. Simple Flying recently reported that the heads of Yakovlev and Tupolev had been dismissed for the "failure of civil aviation.
" Now, the Russian news outlet Kommersant reported that these dismissals follow a Russian report showing civil aviation is in competition with military aviation, and it's even worse for Russia's civil aviation industry than previously thought. Russia's civil aviation industry competing with military One of the recently dismissed directors was the director of Yakovlev, which produces the MC-21 and SJ-100 aircraft. These are critical for Russia's plans to domestically produce around 1,000 passenger jets by 2030 .
According to Kommersant, not only has Russia not produced a single Russified MC-21 or SJ-100 - it hasn't delivered a single Soviet-era Tu-214 since the sanctions were put in place. Much of Russia's ability to produce commercial aircraft rests on " suppliers’ workload with state defense orders ." ".
..it turned out that a number of components [for passenger aircraft] are not produced in the Russian Federation or are used by defense enterprises.
.." - Kommersant Russia is running a wartime economy, and the civil aviation market is competing with the defense market.
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