In late April, Russia announced a new state-funded project research project called "Development of a complex of technologies for the airframe, power plant, aircraft systems and airborne radio-electronic equipment to ensure the formation of a technical image of a promising supersonic civil aircraft" (Code "SGS-T3").
The contractor will be determined on a competitive basis on May 16, 2025. Some details have become known about the ongoing and upcoming work on creating a passenger "aircraft of the future."
According to publicly available data, the work consists of five stages. It must be completed from December 2025 to the beginning of December 2027. The development is funded from the state budget.
The developers plan that the new machine should fly at a cruising speed of 2-2.1 M (about 2500 km/h) and have a range of up to 8500 km or more.
To achieve such parameters after much more "simple" subsonic aircraft, which now make up 100% of the world's civil aviation fleet, a truly technological breakthrough is needed.
Earlier www1.ru reported that the developer of the MC-21 will make more than 200 test flights before handing over the aircraft to customers.
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