Putin Pledges Revival of Russia's Aerospace Might

Source: Bloomberg

Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) -- President Vladimir Putin said Russia will challenge Europe and the U.S. in aerospace as the country rebuilds an industry that once rolled out a quarter of the world's commercial aircraft fleet.

Russia ``has new economic possibilities'' to gain a greater share of the global market for civilian passenger and transport planes and ``keep its leadership in producing combat aircraft,'' Putin said today at the opening of the Moscow Air Show.

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More than 780 domestic and foreign producers from 110 countries are participating in the biennial event, Putin said at the once-secret Zhukov airfield near the Russian capital.

Putin pushed Russia's aerospace manufacturers and designers to merge into state-controlled OAO Unified Aircraft Corp. to create a business with the scale to compete abroad. Russian companies aim to build and sell 4,500 civilian and military planes valued at $250 billion over the next 18 years, Unified Aircraft Chief Executive Officer Alexey Fyodorov said Aug. 15.



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Is Putin realizing Bush wants to militarize space and turn it into another medium in which we wage war?

which also comes as no surprise, given what the first Hitler did to the first Stalin, what does Comrade Putin think Buhsler wants to do to him?

Sadly, with Bushler in command of Imperial Amerika's mighty arsenal of WMDs, and with an unstable, Third-World Tyranny behind him, along with a people more enslaved than the Russians are now, makes Putin's fear of Bushler quite valid.

before herr bu$che and his chainy neocon war criminals kidnapped the good US of A in Y2K. :grr:

So long, peaceful cooperation in space exploration and discovery.

Adieu :cry:

Goodbye, blue sky. :mad:

more Russian manned space flights, including to the planets, but I knew that wasn't Putin's main thrust.