To Boeing challenged the message of the acquisition of Ukrainian engines

The official representative of the organization of Boeing in Russia Elena Aleksandrova rejected data about the fact that Ukraine will supply Corporation engines and launch vehicles.
"From the Ukrainian media was completely false information. Firm Boeing is not signed With Ukraine no contract on cooperation in the field of space programs, and we are not planning any agreements in the near future ", ? the news Agency of words Alexandrova, said on air of television channel " Russia-24 ".
This Ukrainian TV channel one plus One say about the fact that Ukraine and Boeing have agreed on the delivery of the organization of engines and launch vehicles of the state enterprise "Design Bureau" southern " to them. M. Yangel "and enterprise" Yuzhmash " (both ? Dnepropetrovsk). Supplies will be provided, if Kiev does not become relevant contacts with the countries to which the U.S. employed punishment, said the channel. August 13, the American Company Orbital Sciences Corporation said that a new batch of Russian rocket engines RD-181 under a contract for $ 1 billion is expected in the fall of 2015. In July Russia exported to USA two first rocket engine, the RD-181. On 22 July, the head of the Department of communication and information of the state Corporation rostec Vasily Brovko said that North America will not be able to abandon the purchase of Russian rocket engines over the next 10-15 years. The Russian RD-180 engines are used in the first stage of U.S. missiles Atlas, and as long as the U.S. industry does not produce analogues. With the help of these motors, a joint venture of 2 major arms manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Boeing With the name ULA competes With the private company SpaceX, which wants to create its own engine. Remember, December 20, 2014 the head of Barack Obama said he signed the defense budget for the 2015 fiscal year at a cost of approximately 577 billion. The law contains the amendment of the Senator-Republican John McCain, establishing a ban on further purchases of Russian RD-180 engines. The Act provides that the Minister may apply the RD-180 after 2019 only if these engines were acquired prior To the reunification of the Crimea With Russia. At the end of April this year, the U.S. Department of defense asked Congress to authorize the use of RD-180 To 2022. At the end of may American Firm United Launch Alliance LLC (ULA) announced that the limits from the U.S. Congress related To the prohibition of the use of the Russian RD-180 engines for new contracts for government launches, have the ability to threaten national security of the country.


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