After Russia launched a special military operation against Ukraine , Western countries are constantly besieging Russia. Such siege includes not only the continuous flow of weapons to Ukraine militarily, but also the political isolation of Russia. In terms of economic sanctions against Russia, this kind of suppression has exceeded the suppression against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Since Russia has been unable to obtain passenger aircraft manufactured by Western countries, Russia is also focused on resuming production of Soviet passenger aircraft. It is understood that Russia has made it clear that it will restart the production of Tu-214 narrow-body passenger aircraft and IL-96 wide-body passenger aircraft. In fact, Russia There are currently advanced passenger aircraft projects that can replace these two Soviet models, including the MC21 narrow-body passenger aircraft and the CR929 wide-body passenger aircraft jointly developed by China and Russia. However, it is obvious that Russia today still hopes to rest on its laurels from the Soviet era. , because these two aircraft can be manufactured as long as the production line is restarted, while the MC21 narrow-body passenger aircraft and the CR929 wide-body passenger aircraft jointly developed by China and Russia still require a large amount of investment and a series of tests.
Today's Russia seems to have wavered on the CR929 wide-body passenger aircraft project. According to media reports, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Borisov stated at the plenary meeting of the "Future Engineers" forum that Russia is currently reducing manufacturing with China. CR929 project participation, according to the original plan, the share of China and Russia in the CR929 project was half, but now Russia is constantly reducing its share. According to the original plan, the CR929 project will make Russia and China The share is half and half, but now Russia points out that "the Chinese need much more than Russia has" and Russia's participation is decreasing, while Borisov points out that "as China becomes an industrial giant, for Russia services are becoming less and less interesting”.
In fact, there have long been rumors in Russia that the Il-96 wide-body passenger aircraft will replace the CR929 wide-body passenger aircraft project. However, Global Defense Watch believes that this statement is simply unfeasible. The Il-96 wide-body passenger aircraft has been in use since the Soviet era. Birth, if the Il-96 wide-body passenger aircraft can really continue, then a large number of Il-96 aircraft have already been used in the Russian civil aviation market, and the Il-96 aircraft will not suffer the same fate as it does now.
Global Defense Observer believes that the main reason for Russia's continuous reduction in participation is probably that Russia's technology can no longer keep up. It is understood that since the establishment of the CR929 project in 2014, Russia has been responsible for its wing control. Taiwan, wing mechanization and other parts of the production and manufacturing, as well as the manufacturing of aero engines, but the CR929 project that China is looking forward to now must be an advanced wide-body passenger aircraft that can equal Boeing 787 and Airbus A330, not It is a wide-body aircraft as long as it can fly, so many of Russia's old technologies are no longer available, and China must replace them with its own technologies.
It can be seen from the development of Chinese military aircraft that the J-16 heavy fighter fuselage has the blood of the Su-27 fighter, but the J-16 heavy fighter has been completely reborn, especially the J-16 heavy fighter is highly intelligent, Both in production and in flight, modernization and intelligence have been achieved. In the eyes of pilots, the J-16 heavy fighter has been regarded as an elite air force one generation ahead of the Su-27 successor, the Su-30 heavy fighter. Text/Iris
