Resuming production of the super-heavy military transport aircraft An-124 "Ruslan" is a pointless endeavor. This was stated in an interview with "First Technical" by Oleg Panteleev, Executive Director of AviaPort agency and aviation expert.
According to him, there is no point in reviving a 50-year-old aircraft project now.
With slightly higher expenses for research and development work on a new generation aircraft, we will get a significantly more modern machine that will be more efficient in solving transport tasks, more economical in operation, and more technologically advanced in production. As a result, if we evaluate the entire life cycle, we will save a lot by creating a new aircraft.
Panteleev noted that the issue could be considered if Russia had a production of "Ruslan" that was mothballed a few years ago, and not only the aircraft itself, but also all the components.
And when we have the opportunity to make a serious leap in terms of characteristics and reduce the cost of assembly by increasing technological efficiency, in my opinion, the choice in favor of a new aircraft is obvious.
An-124 "Ruslan" is one of the most load-carrying aircraft in world history, it was released in 1984. The maximum take-off weight of 405 tons allows performing transportation of almost any complexity.
Currently, the domestic machine has no direct analogues. The development cost of one such vessel was estimated at $300 million.
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