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Atomicfrog said:

They clearly need to bring their production up and steady before foreign jets start to crumble apparts. Would still prefer to have airliners build in Russia than India tho.

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The SJ-100 demand in Russia isn't that extreme. And the factory at Komsomolsk-on-Amur can fullfill the demand easily once production is set up. If there could be an issue is with the component suppliers.

The big production problem is with the medium airliners category which needs the most planes i.e. the MC-21 and Tu-214. Next problem is with the smaller aircraft like the Il-114 or LMS-901. The industry operates the An-24 and An-2 and those aircraft are falling apart. And last you have the widebodies. There is the Il-96-400M but it is an obsolete design.

UAC is saying the flight testing of the SJ-100 and Il-114 will be finished early 2026. With testing for MC-21 finished late 2026. But it wouldn't be the first time the schedule slipped.

The SJ-100 and MC-21 are already in serial production with a couple dozen airframes in differing states of production. The joys of concurrency.

A Russian repair battalion from the 20th Army is working on an active tank defense system against FPV drones. This homemade tank defense system is based on the 81mm launchers of the 902 "Tucha" anti-tank system, which we previously demonstrated on T-90 tanks. The soldiers removed the smoke mixture from the 81mm 3D17 ammunition and replaced it with buckshot charges. Development of the system has only just begun and is not yet funded. Currently, it offers only limited protection for the tank. Currently, the system cannot detect drones and can only be activated manually.