Russian Federation MoD / Vadim Savitsky
The Russian Defense Ministry was offered to restore production of the An-124 Ruslan aircraft. This was reported by the press service of the military department.
At a meeting in Ulyanovsk at the Aviastar-SP enterprise, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu was asked to resume production of Ruslans at the Ulyanovsk aircraft plant. During the meeting, Shoigu noted that six An-124s were repaired in 2020 and expressed the hope that Russia will be able to get the required number of serviceable aircraft.
Note that talks about resuming production of An-124 have been going on for several years. In 2018, it was reported that preparatory work had begun at Aviastar-SP for the start of production of Ruslan. The enterprise itself stated that although the production of the An-124 was discontinued in Russia in 2003, but within the framework of a deep modernization and support for the airworthiness of these aircraft, the enterprise possesses full production technology, since over the entire time the enterprise has manufactured 36 An- 124 Ruslan.
In 2019, it was reported about work on the An-124-100M with completely Russian components. At the same time, Kiev announced that the new Russian aircraft should receive a different name, since the An-124 Ruslan is a Ukrainian aircraft.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense advocated the resumption of production of Ruslans, but the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov rejected the urgent need for this, saying that the repair of the existing An-124 fleet would allow them to be operated until 2040.
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