Project MS-21 is not much affected by the termination of deliveries of the composites from the USA – Borisov

Certification tests of the aircraft may be delayed

Moscow. June 10. INTERFAX – the Need to replace composite materials in the MS-21 has not become a serious problem for the project, said to “Interfax” Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov.
“For a year (postponed – if). Video (composite materials – Interfax) will not be a serious obstacle, I think we will pursue all the plans for manufacturing of composites”, – said Borisov, answering the question about the problem with composite materials.
“There will be more to keep the completion of the certification testing, although three of the aircraft fly. There are always risks: the weather, something else, quite a number of flights have to do to certify the plane by all the rules, both Russian and international,” said Deputy Prime Minister.
In February, the head of Rostec Sergey Chemezov said that the serial production of MS-21 aircraft is shifted by a year due to the termination of the United States of America supplies of composite materials.
“Due to the fact that the Americans stopped the supply of composite materials, we come on their composites. Necessary developments and our Russian partners, in particular, Rosatom, is already there. The project will be launched in serial production a few moves. We had been at the end of this year to release some of the planes series, and now it will move to the end of 2020 – i.e. on-year shifts,” – said Chemezov.
According to him, composite materials will be Russian and not to buy abroad.
US sanctions against JSC “Aerocomposit” (part of JSC “UAC”) and JSC “ORPE “Technologiya” name Romashina” (included in “rostec”) has jeopardized the creation of composite “black wing” for MS-21 aircraft, announced in January, the newspaper “Kommersant”.
According to the newspaper, the number of components for the composites used for the wing and part of the keel of the MS-21, was from the United States and Japan, but recently, under pressure from Washington, the shipments were stopped. We are talking about the components of production American Japanese Hexcel and Toray Industries.
The MS-21 should be the first medium-range aircraft created in post-Soviet Russia, an elongated composite wing – one of his competitive advantages. It increases the efficiency of the machine and increases the cabin width compared to counterparts from Boeing and Airbus

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