US sanctions cut off supplies from America and Japan materials for composite “black wing” of the aircraft MC-21, reports “Kommersant”. It is noted that we are talking about the components of production American Japanese Hexcel and Toray Industries.
- RIA Novosti
According to the newspaper’s sources, the remaining supply of composites for six aircraft.
“Now we’ll have to take either Chinese composites, which is twice thicker and heavier, or wait, when Russian companies will be able to create something similar,” — said the source publication.
In “assistance” is called the problem of “far-fetched”.
“There are reliable foreign suppliers of composites has its own development. Without the necessary materials, the aircraft industry in any case will remain, a rejection of the use of the MS-21 composites is not even considered,” said the Corporation.
In the office of the Vice Prime Minister Yuri Borisov on the question, whether there corresponds to reality information that the Japanese company is under pressure from the United States ceased to deliver to Russia the composites used in the wing of the MS-21, told the newspaper that “the government are fully aware with everything that’s happening with the MS-21”.
“Problems that put the project at risk, at the moment does not exist,” — said Borisov in the apparatus.
In the fall of 2018 the US Department of Commerce contributed to the sanctions list of the 12 Russian companies.
The list includes the following companies: “AeroComposite”, “Dayvtekhnoservis”, FSUE NPP “Gamma”, research Institute “Vector”, Nilco Group, Obninsk research and production enterprise “Technology”, “Okeanos”, “Aviadvigatel”, “infoteks”, “Systems of precision instrument making”, Syrus Systems and Voronezh scientific research Institute “VEGA”.
In September Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said that in the creation of short / medium – haul passenger aircraft of the new generation MS-21 plan to invest more than 460 billion rubles.