Angara region: The United States blocked the supply of materials for the Irkut aircraft

US sanctions blocked the supply of materials from America and Japan for the composite wing of the Irkut MS-21 aircraft developed by Irkut Corporation. The establishment of the production of such materials in Russia may delay the launch of the aircraft in the series for several years. The rejection of the composite wing deprives the meaning of the project worth 438 billion rubles, Kommersant said .

US sanctions against Aerocomposite Aerocomposite companies (United Aviation Corporation) and ONPP Romashin Technology (Rostec) are threatened by the creation of a composite black wing for a near-daemagistral narrow-fuel aircraft of Irkut MS-21, called the "main aircraft of the 21st century".

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The elongated composite wing of Irkuta is one of the competitive advantages of the aircraft, which increases its efficiency and width of the cabin compared to similar Boeing and Airbus machines. Now the fourth experimental plane is going, the reserve of the composite will be enough for another six cars. Then you will have to buy Chinese -made materials, which are twice as thick and difficult, or wait for Russian enterprises to master production, one of the interlocutors of the publication explained.

One of the options for solving the problem is to replace composites for metal, but this will deprive the plane of one of the main advantages and complicate the certification, as a new test cycle will be required.

In mid-December, Rostec Director General Sergei Chemezov said that Russia would not be able to sell the Irkut Corporation MS-21 abroad . This is due to the fact that the Federal Air Transport Agency failed to agree with the international certification bodies so that the Russian is recognized in Europe and the United States.

Potent samples of the aircraft began to be assembled in 2014. The first flight of the airliner took place in May 2017 on the basis of the Irkutsk aircraft factory. The start of serial production was scheduled for 2017, but was postponed first for 2018, and then for 2019.