A plan to put the outdated A-50 Mainstay back into production reflects growing losses and major problems in the Russian aerospace industry.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/7336903

Speaking yesterday, Sergei Chemezov, the head of Russia’s Rostec state defense conglomerate, said that production of the A-50 would be restarted, according to a report from the state-run TASS news agency.

  • circuscritic
    103·
    8 months ago

    That’s an extremely ungenerous interpretation of the headline, and it’s wrong.

    They are necessary for the Russian war effort, because sanctions are preventing the manufacturing of a modern replacement, which is what the headline is in reference to.

    Now, you may feel the war is unnecessary, and I would go further by saying it’s prosecutors and planners should be hanged from the neck, until dead.

    But again, that’s not relevant here.