The Russian authorities decided to devote 5 billion rubles to the development of the domestic aircraft industry in 2023. In the meeting with the Deputy Prime Ministers, declaration Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
“Now, the factory facilities that started the serial production of aircraft, the aircraft engines for them and all the necessary tools and assemblies must be modernized as soon as possible. “On behalf of the head of state, the government will allocate 5 billion rubles for the implementation of this large-scale program,” Mishustin said.
According to him, from 2024, the government will specifically allocate funds for the modernization of the industry.
He added that the volume of financial support to be provided to the aviation industry in the next 14 years could exceed 376 billion rubles. Such assistance will help the company offset the cost of repayment of loans and interest on them to speed up equipment production.
17 February Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport Sergei Ivanov declarationthat in a few years Russia will enter the serial production of aircraft for civil aviation. The previously chosen way of equipping Russian airlines with aircraft, with an emphasis on imports and leasing, turned out to be wrong, he also said that Western sanctions had severely hit the national aircraft industry.