92 Tonnes of Cargo! How Russia Transformed the Il-96 Into a Heavy Hauler
Russian civil aviation got a new heavy-lift cargo aircraft on September 27, 2009, when the Il-96-400T conducted its inaugural commercial flight from Moscow’s Domodedovo...
Beyond Publications: Turning India’s Research Papers into Revenue-Generating Products
By early 2026, India was the world's third-largest producer of peer-reviewed scientific publications, behind only China and the United States. It ranked 38th in...
Russia Just Showed Its Nvidia Challenger: Baikal’s New AI Chip Runs CUDA
Russia’s semiconductor sector has taken another stride in artificial intelligence technology with a public demonstration of a new general-purpose graphics processing unit, or GPGPU, core...
One MC-21 Every 40 Days? Russia Sets Its Biggest Production Target Yet
Russia’s MC-21 program is entering a new phase with the Irkutsk Aviation Plant expected to sharply ramp up production. The manufacturer expects to reach...
From 350 nm to 130 nm: Russia’s Race to Build Its Own Chip Machines
Russia is creating a domestic base for producing the equipment for semiconductor production—photolithography systems—without which current integrated circuits cannot be produced. It is as...