Aircraft
Russia To Invest in Indigenous Superjet
Development of the Superjet-New is planned to run through 2024.

Russia’s Ministry for Industry and Trade has confirmed its intent to spent 14.867 billion roubles ($239 million) on a multi-stage effort targeting the creation of a Russianized version of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100), dubbed the Superjet-New, with completion expected in 2024. The confirmation came on December 23, following leaks to the media of internal governmental papers mentioning this new allocation as well as an interim aircraft variant, dubbed Superjet-New-2020.