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...
Inside Russia’s 2ES11 “Orlets”: The Freight Locomotive Aiming to Transform Rail Transport
In late 2025, acceptance and certification tests started on the new 2ES11 "Orlets" mainline freight electric locomotive at the VNIIZhT experimental loop in Shcherbinka,...