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Text: Fat guy eggplant.
As we all know, there are not many equipment in the Russian aviation industry that is expected to be imported by China, but just recently, a Russian source said that China seems to have taken a fancy to a new Russian-made aircraft ......
According to TASS, citing a so-called "source" within the Russian "United Aircraft Corporation" (UAC), there is information showing thatCOMAC is very interested in a large aircraft independently developed by Russia, the Il-96, nicknamed the "Big White Goose", and has officially issued an order of intentThis type of transport aircraft may be procured in the future.
Il-96 "Big White Goose" in white livery ").
The source also said on social **COMAC not only hopes to directly purchase this type of aircraft, but also hopes to simultaneously introduce the production line and key technologies of this model, and the second production line of this type is expected to be settled in Yanliang, Xi'an, ChinaThat is, the location of the famous "Xifei" company, which developed the Y-20 and H-6.
But it should be noted thatSo far, neither COMAC nor Russia United Aircraft Corporation has responded positively to or confirmed this news.
Brand new Il-96-400M airliner from the factory).
The Il-96 is not new, to put it bluntly, it is a wide-body large passenger aircraft transport aircraft developed in the former Soviet Union, which first flew in 1988. It has a variety of variants such as passenger aircraft, cargo aircraft, military command aircraft, and air tankers, but the most famous is the Il-96-300PU as the "Putin's special plane". It is reported that at present, the first transport company transports 4 passenger planes of this type, Putin, Medvedev and even Lavrov will take the plane to visit various countries, and the plane has also carried Putin and other senior Russian leaders to visit China many times ......
Putin flew on a special airliner Il-96)
can be used as a special plane, which shows that Russia trusts the Il-96 very much. For China, the aircraft is indeed able to fill the gap of domestic large passenger aircraft and transport aircraft - it is reported that the C919 passenger aircraft independently developed by China is a narrow-body passenger aircraft, with a maximum take-off weight of less than 100 tons; As a military transport aircraft, the Y-20 has a maximum take-off weight of 220 tons. WhileThe latest model of the Il-96 has a maximum take-off weight of 265 tons and can carry up to 436 passengers at a time.
But Eggplant believes that even if it has an advantage in performance, it is still unlikely that the aircraft will be introduced to China, and it is more likely that the Russians are "self-congratulatory".
The maximum take-off weight of the Y-20 is inferior to that of the Il-96).
Why? First of all, although the Russian side withdrew, COMAC's own C929 wide-body passenger aircraft project is still progressing steadily, and has now progressed to the progress of prototype construction, which is expected to be unveiled and delivered in small batches by 2030. If the C929 can be delivered, what is the point of spending a few more years to introduce the Il-96, which is similarly positioned but has a relatively more backward level of design?
Secondly, Russian "sources" also declared that COMAC hopes to introduce the production line of the aircraft, but one thing must be clearRussia has not yet built a modern high-speed production line for this model, and the production of this machine is still in the stage of "low-speed small batch production". From 1988 to the present, except for 1994, when the aircraft achieved an annual output of "3 aircraft", only one or two aircraft can be produced every year, and even one aircraft has not been delivered in many years. With such a low-speed production line, it is enough to even deliver the models that the Chinese side may order, let alone ask the Chinese side to introduce it......
C929 widebody model).
Finally, China itself already has the C929 wide-body aircraft project, the future of the aircraft is also expected to become China's new generation of large early warning aircraft and even the leader of the platform base, such an important project, China has always not pursued "buying", but hopes to carry out independent research and development, the core technology and production capacity in their own hands, so as not to be restricted by other countries. Therefore, it is not impossible for China to introduce the Il-96, but it is really not very - if the Russians are really in a hurry to sell, it is better to look at India next door, they are quite happy to engage in "buy-and-take" in the aviation industry.