Russia Has Offered China A Non-existent Aircraft Engine

It is in the development stage.

Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov has announced Moscow's readiness to supply China with a promising PD-26 aircraft engine for the Chinese long-range wide-body airplane under development. This is reported by Interfax.

The key feature of the proposal is that the PD-26 engine itself does not yet exist - it is under development. According to Manturov, this engine is planned to be created on the basis of the PD-35 gas generator and to be used in the future for the IL-96 transport plane and modifications of the MS-21-500/600, The Moscow Times reports.

"There is no airplane itself yet, so as soon as the airplane appears, these supplies will appear. We are ready to make such deliveries," the deputy prime minister said, emphasizing that the final decision rests with Chinese partners. Manturov also noted that Russia does not disclose the details of cooperation in sensitive areas: "We try not to announce those areas that are sensitive in order not to embarrass our colleagues."

The proposal to China was made against the backdrop of the failure of a large-scale program to revive the Russian aircraft industry. As Reuters reported, citing data from Swiss service ch-aviation, Russian manufacturers were able to deliver only one of the 15 passenger planes planned for 2025 to carriers.

The program, launched after the outbreak of war in Ukraine to replace unavailable Boeing and Airbus, has proved impossible to implement. Instead of the planned 82 planes in 2025, the Russian civil aviation fleet in 2022-2025 was replenished with only 13 new aircraft - 12 Superjets and one Tu-214, which is used exclusively for Manturov's transportation.

An anonymous source in the aviation industry noted that for a full-fledged revival of the aviation industry in Russia, "there is no component base, no technology, no factories, no engineers". According to his estimates, it would take "years, if not decades" to create all this from scratch.

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