Chinese Aviation Industry
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The Russians stopped producing the passenger version of the Il-96 due to cost issues and lack of market penetration, so cooperation on a follow-on would make sense in terms of cost reduction and increasing production numbers.
A cursory search on the COMAC site reveals no reference to the follow on 9x9s, every source on them appear to be little more than guesses and speculation.
I have no doubt COMAC has some sort of roadmap but I don't think anybody really has a clue what they are.
I have no doubt COMAC has some sort of roadmap but I don't think anybody really has a clue what they are.
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Main question: engines.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
We'll see if it happens. Aren't there a lot of deals like this and we never see anything of it? Maybe if Putin is signing that gives it something extra. But look at that joint helicopter deal with that model we've seen... There's nothing but CGI/photoshop images of it. I can see the military use but for international commercial airline business? The Russians alone don't have a good reputation let alone issues with Chinese quality. I can only see it as the Russians wanting a piece of China's commerical airline business which is the savior of why Chinese quality issues aren't an issue. China's the market which is also why I read the US and Europe are conspiring to stop China's own domestic airline industry by complaining it's government subsidized. China starts building and buying its own airliners and Boeing and Airbus commercial airline business starts a downward spiral.
Well they didnt complain about russia subsidizing sukhoi. Why would they complain about comac ? I even saw somewhere on the internet that boeing cooperated something with comac.
Besides, complaining would lead to nowhere. It will take many many years for comac to develop a product that is safe and competitive enough to be able to get sales in US/EU airline markets. So it would be really pointless.
Boeing and Comac signed an agreement this March to collaborate on R&D, after all AVIC makes a lot of components for Boeing and Airbus jets. But Comac has an even higher level of collaboration with Bombardier, which is designing the C-series airliner so it shares component commonality with the C919. Right now AVIC Commercial Aircraft Engine also has high level cooperation with CFM and GE to develop the new CJ series engine for C919.