Work has begun at the Zhukovsky National Research Center to create a domestic passenger supersonic aircraft. However, the production of such liners is unlikely to be mass-produced due to the high cost of flights at such speeds, said Dmitry Markovich, Director of the Institute of Thermophysics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The expert recalled that Russia had already abandoned the Tu-144 and the French Concorde due to their high cost.
The Zhukovsky National Research Center project has many technical tasks, not all of which are publicized. Everything is still in the initial stage, I believe. It [the plane] is, in fact, a slightly larger business jet. It will not be mass-produced because it is still quite expensive.
The Zhukovsky Institute conducted the world's first tests of intelligent technologies for a supersonic civil aircraft in April. Pilots took to the sky a technology demonstrator as part of the Yak-40 laboratory and controlled it from a cockpit without glazing using external vision systems based on cameras of different spectral ranges.
Earlier, www1.ru reported that 14 MS-21 aircraft to replace Airbus and Boeing have been assembled at Rostec factories.
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