Why Re-Engining Russia’s Superjet 100 With PD-8 May Not Make Economic Sense
The issue of remotorizing the Russian regional airliner Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ-100)—replacing its existing Franco-Russian SaM146 engines with domestically manufactured PD-8 engines—has emerged as...
Russia Delays Return of Tu-204, Tu-214, Il-96 and An-124—New Deadline 2027
The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade (Minpromtorg) has developed a draft government decree, which stipulates that the deadlines for restoring the airworthiness of...
UZGA’s UTS-800 Enters New Test Stage—Future of Russian Pilot Training Takes Shape
In late November 2025, a major milestone was achieved at the Ural Civil Aviation Plant (UZGA) airfield. Another of the serial UTS-800 aircraft has...
Russia Unveils Breakthrough 65 nm Chipmaking Machines via Plasma Etching & Deposition Systems
In December 2025, Russia announced the development of its first entirely domestically produced equipment for manufacturing integrated circuits—cluster systems for plasma-chemical etching and plasma-chemical...
Does the Russian MC-21 Narrow Body Aircraft Need More Powerful Engines?
The MC-21 program has quietly emerged as one of the most interesting aviation developments of the past decade: a modern single-aisle Russian aircraft engineered...