“Russia's aviation industry could end up like the one in Iran, which has been able to maintain a fleet of Western-built aircraft using some back-end measures to keep them flying. Russia has a commercially successful aerospace industry that still employs hundreds of thousands of people. It has produced aircraft in the past, so there is a history and infrastructure for designing and producing aircraft engines and aircraft components. It won't be perfect and it would probably result in keeping a skeleton fleet of sorts, but they have a lot of the tools needed to make it work to keep western-built aircraft flying for decades.”
13 May 2022
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