Today, Russia is effectively rebuilding a full range of competencies in civil aircraft construction — a process that experts call unique in global practice. Andrey Dutov, General Director of the National Research Center "Zhukovsky Institute," emphasized that the return of technological leadership is impossible without qualitative superiority over existing solutions, but the main goal is not competition, but ensuring strategic national tasks.
There is no point in focusing only on traditional concepts and solutions in aircraft construction. Their perfection has reached its limits.
According to Dutov, domestic engineers are already fulfilling this task: new Russian technologies have been introduced in the import-substituted MC-21 and SJ 100, which actually turn them into new generation aircraft. At the same time, as the head of the institute noted, the industry has reached the limit of the development of classical structural and technological solutions.
A technological breakthrough is possible only with the transition to new technological structures, and this is exactly what Russian scientific schools are now betting on, focusing on promising areas and breakthrough developments of the future.
Earlier, www1.ru reported that the fifth-generation 177S engine for tactical aviation aircraft will be demonstrated in the Middle East for the first time.
