The project to resume serial production of the Tu-214 has factually reached a dead end in the civil market. According to sources in the industry, negotiations with Yakutia and S7 did not lead to firm contracts, and new buyers are in no hurry to take the aircraft into the fleet.
A source at Business Online stated that against this background, the Tu-214 program has only one survival scenario left - reorientation to the military, who need " carcasses " to perform a variety of tasks.
If the Ministry of Defense places an order and the plant pulls it out, the civilian market will appear before the Tupolevs.
However, Russia has few alternatives in the coming years. Own new aircraft will not appear in the foreseeable future, and the fleet of imported aircraft will be reduced by about half within five years.
These risks are understood both in the industry and in the government, the source noted. It is no coincidence that the project for the construction of HSR, which is considered as one of the responses to the shortage of air transportation, was urgently revived and expanded in parallel.
As a reminder, a military pilot proposed to equip the Tu-214 with the Irbis radar system to replace the A-100 AWACS, which has no alternatives in its class now.
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