Ekaterina Spirovska. The task of import substitution in the project aircraft MS-21 solved, the Russian Federation is expected to replace 70% of us share, said Last news head of the sector of sales of the Corporation "Irkut " Valery".

The MS-21 Russian airliner that is created to replace Tu-154 and Tu-134. The MS-21 has 3 versions: MS-21-200 (150 seats), MS-21-300 (180 seats) and MS-21-400 (212 seats). The aircraft will be produced at the Irkutsk plant.

"If we talk about cooperation, 70% of it organizations from USA, 14% from Russia and the remaining 16% in Europe. In terms of import substitution, and in truth, the Problem is very difficult to isolate all of this cooperation. But the Task is delivered and is currently being addressed, "said" on air show Le Bourget 2015.


He explained that the primary study made found potential suppliers, Russian, they, for their part, confirmed the possibility of its involvement in the manufacture of equipment. The head of Department has specified that the punishment had no effect on performance on this class of aircraft.

"We absolutely do not feel any impact of the punishment on our suppliers for the MS-21. The work is going, how it was conducted. Contracts have been signed, they are performed, supplies are, " said He.


Western countries since March 2014 several times already imposed penalties because Russia's position on Ukraine. The last case of the use of such practices were the limits imposed in March 2015, when expanded sanctions List of the USA. In addition, the summit "the Big seven" in Bavaria it was decided to extend the punishment against Russia, and the United States considering the introduction of a new.

The list of Russian citizens and organizations who have fallen under the punishment - in the material of the Fins news

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