Russia will return to projects to create passenger supersonic aircraft, the country already has experience in this area. This confidence was expressed by Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Savelyev.
He recalled that the domestic industry is currently busy creating fully import-substituted airliners — SJ-100 with PD-8 engines and MS-21 with PD-14 engines
I am sure that we will return to supersonic aircraft projects. We had such aircraft, the Tu-144, our domestic aircraft, 16 aircraft were designed, flew Moscow - Almaty in the Soviet Union. I think we will return to these topics.
Andrey Dutov, General Director of the National Research Center "Zhukovsky Institute", noted that the center is already working on a supersonic civil aircraft project, which will be a unique technological breakthrough for the country.
Earlier www1.ru reported that ODK has accelerated the welding of parts for PD-8 and PD-14 engines by 10 times.