Delivery 2 Voronezh An-148 was in jeopardy because of Ukraine
Zam. defense Minister of Russia Yuri Borisov on Thursday said the threat of disruption of the supply of the Voronezh aviation aircraft by combining 2 of the 4 planned aircraft An-148-100E for the Ukrainian company. "The cause of possible failure of delivery of the aircraft came was the failure of the supply of the main landing gear of the Ukrainian supplier. Now mastered Their production plant of Nizhny Novgorod "GidroMash" ? RIA "Novosti" letter Borisov. According to the envoy of the Ministry, similar concerns on a number of government contracts in 2015.
Short-haul passenger aircraft An-148 can without intermediate stops flights range from 2 to 5 thousand Kilometers, is adapted for landing on unpaved airfields. Cruising speed is 800-870 km per hour. Regional aircraft An-148 of the Voronezh aircraft factory since 2009 operated by the airline " Russia ", the WORD " Russia ", " Angara ", the flying detachments of the Ministry of emergency situations and the Ministry of defence. Their total flight time was almost reached 85 thousand Hours. Remember, in may, the Ukrainian government has terminated a contract between the governments of Ukraine and Russia on military-technical cooperation. In addition, in early summer, the head of Ukraine signed a law on denunciation of the agreement between the government of Ukraine and the government of the Russian Federation on cooperation in the military field, in the field of military intelligence, on denunciation of the agreement on the organization of military interstate transportations and settlements for them. According to experts, the refusal to cooperate with Russia in the military-industrial complex almost completely Lisitsian military industry: from the cessation of military-technical cooperation between Ukraine will lose a lot more than Russia. In January the head of the defense Ministry Sergei Shoigu said that before the end of the year, the Russian military is expected to replace nearly 700 types of components for weapons and military equipment, which were produced in cooperation with Ukraine.