The United States is trying to disrupt the launch of a Russian-Chinese competitor to Boeing
The United States may impose sanctions against the Russian Ministry of Defense, a number of defense enterprises and civilian industry.
Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The draft list of American sanctions includes 89 Chinese and 28 Russian companies, which, according to Washington, may be associated with the armed forces of these countries. For the first time, several key civil aircraft manufacturing enterprises in Russia and China may be subject to sanctions at once. The document identifies more than 10 civil aircraft manufacturing enterprises.
“Particularly noteworthy is the presence in this list of Irkut Corporation, which, in particular, produces new short-medium-haul passenger aircraft MC-21, and also, in cooperation with the Chinese COMAS (also on the new list), plans to create a wide-body long-haul aircraft of a new generation CR929,” the article notes.
It is also indicated that the MC-21 is a serious competitor to the most successful aircraft of the American Boeing and European Airbus.
“It has been created since the mid-2017s. In May 2019, it made its first flight with foreign wings and imported engines. In January 21, due to US sanctions against UAC and Rostec (and Irkut is part of this holding), the American company Hexcel and the Japanese Toray Industries stopped supplying composite materials for the MS-XNUMX wings. Then the head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, admitted that the schedule for serial production of the aircraft would be delayed by a year,” the newspaper writes.
According to the director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Alexei Maslov, with new restrictions against Beijing and Moscow, Washington also wants to prevent the successful implementation of the Russian-Chinese project of the promising CR929 wide-body aircraft.
“The United States is extremely afraid that the Russian and Chinese aircraft will deal a severe blow to Boeing. If the CR929 project is successfully completed, Russia and China will not depend on imports,” the expert said.
However, a number of experts suggest that the expansion of sanctions will benefit both the strengthening of bilateral cooperation between aircraft manufacturers in Russia and China, and the strengthening of the positions of Russian manufacturers in this cooperation.
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