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Ukraine’s Aerospace Industry: Primed For NATO-Nation Partnerships

Lots of challenges remain now Ukraine has been cut off from Russia, as it deals with international customers directly.

Once a mainstay of the USSR’s military industrial complex, Ukraine now faces the daunting task of addressing markets other than Russia, its primary customer since the fall of the Soviet Union. Products include: the Antonov An-124 heavy lifter (right); air-to-air missiles (below); and air-defense radar systems (left).

By Reuben F. Johnson

July 2, 2016

If there was an award for the most promising—yet unfulfilled—aerospace industry, it might be that of the former Soviet republic, Ukraine. For many years, Ukraine’s industry has been providing engines, radars, avionics and missiles to Russian enterprises for final installation in finished products being rolled out of factories in places such as Moscow, Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Kazan.

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