SibNIA remains center of Russian innovation
Russian military aviation has a long history of fierce competition between the two major design bureaus–Mikoyan and Sukhoi–and their associated production

Russian military aviation has a long history of fierce competition between the two major design bureaus–Mikoyan and Sukhoi–and their associated production centers. One consequence of this rivalry was that many of the major enterprises and research institutes associated with military aircraft production became primarily associated with one design bureau or the other. And so, historically, the Siberian Aeronautical Research Institute (SibNIA) in Novosibirsk has been Sukhoi’s brain trust for advanced aerodynamic and structural testing.