Aircraft
Kremlin Boosts Funding for MC-21
Western sanctions help drive up costs of the Irkutsk-built narrowbody program to more than triple its original estimate.

Following repeated pleas by the local industry to help it overcome the mounting pressure of Western sanctions, the Kremlin has allocated another 1.6 billion roubles ($24.2 million) in subsidies to the MC-21 program for 2019. Prime minister Dmitry Medvedev said the funds would help MC-21 project participants honor bank credits taken during the project’s research and development stage. Some of the money will also go toward flight simulators, equipment for ground support, and establishing spare parts warehouses. Further plans call an allocation of 4.11 billion roubles in 2020 and other 4.81 billion roubles in 2021.


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