/ world right this moment information/ Russia and Saudi Arabia are approaching the stage of technical consultations on a challenge to create a supersonic passenger aircraft, the Russian aspect is asking Riyadh to establish companions for this, in response to the ultimate minutes of the assembly of the intergovernmental fee of the 2 international locations.
“The Russian aspect has supplied to cooperate on the challenge to create a supersonic passenger aircraft and to request the identification of companions for the preliminary technical consultations on the challenge,” the doc mentioned.
In January 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to make a civilian model of a supersonic plane primarily based on the Tu-160 strategic missile service. The United Aviation Company has introduced that it’s engaged on a supersonic passenger aircraft that may apply the developments and applied sciences used within the Tu-160. In September 2018, the corporate “Tupolev” introduced that the preliminary design work on the supersonic passenger aircraft is already on the last stage, there’s a preliminary understanding of the value and traits.
For its half, Saudi Arabia has already proven curiosity on this challenge final yr, when it was offered to the administration of Saudi Arabia’s state-owned TAQNIA Aeronautics Firm (TAS) and the King Abdulaziz Analysis Institute for Science and Know-how.
On the similar time, the top of the Ministry of Business and Commerce of the Russian Federation, Denis Manturov, reported earlier in July that he mentioned this challenge with the Mubadala Basis of the UAE, after which the Emirates expressed curiosity on this challenge as nicely. He famous that it is a multilateral cooperation challenge – with the Emirates, with Saudi Arabia and presumably with different international locations.
The sixth assembly of the Intergovernmental Fee of the Russian Federation and Saudi Arabia was held in Moscow on June 9-10.
Translation: V.Sergeev
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