Neha Raghuvanshi 1995 days ago

Indeed, before the outburst of hostilities in the Ukrainian state, Russia has never openly said anything against the modernization of Indian â Avroâ and An-32. This is easily explained by the fact that Russian corporation â ILiu-Shinâ has no tried-and-tested engines of new making, therefore it cannot offer India any project associated with swift modernization of IL-76MD.

In connection with the foregoing, Russia arrived with quite an unprecedented way out of such a state-of-affairs, particularly through manufacturing on the basis of IL-76MD a brand-new Russian aircraft MTA until 2025. However, for the time being this aircraft is neither on a sketch-board, nor in the must-have list among the importers.

Interestingly, the aforementioned aircraftâ s engine PD-14 has undergone test-bench trials only in 2013, although Russia boldly states that it will be able to produce 20-30 engines per year. Nevertheless, the MTA project requires the production capacity to the tune of 200 engines within one year.

Taking that into account, it is obvious that before the beginning of war with Ukraine the hopes of Russia rested upon seizing the biggest Ukrainian aviation engine design plant â Motor-Sichâ in order to include it into the project and, thus, after some 10-15 years give India a full-fledged confidence in the logistics of its army. Nevertheless, such a prospective lacks both morally and practically.