Today, the number of countries capable of producing their own aircraft engines that have survived massive firecracker explosions can be counted on the fingers of one hand. During the post-Soviet turmoil, Russia fell hopelessly behind in the production of competitive civil aircraft engines, while just about fifteen years ago problems arose that required a significant reduction in the industry’s backlog.
Image source: United Engine Corporation (UEC), Rostec.
The long process of resilience continues to this day, but it has really gained momentum recently. how report The press service of the Rostec state company has opened a new large-scale production center in Moscow, which will produce PD-8 and PD-14 aircraft engine parts for the SJ-100 and MC-21 passenger aircraft respectively. The new enterprise’s factories will produce parts for other engines, such as the VK-2500, TV7-117 and AI-222-25, but mainly the above two engines.
The new enterprise has an area of more than 10,000 square meters and has about 230 industrial equipment – machines and other installations and units. There has been no comment on the productivity of the newly opened factories – which is best measured in units of production.