Russia’s Commercial & Military Aviation Industries Duel For Limited Resources

In the wake of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the West imposed crippling sanctions on Russia’s aviation industry. While there may be ways around many of these sanctions, they have been devastating to Russia’s ability to produce aircraft. Simple Flying recently reported that the heads of Yakovlev and Tupolev had been dismissed for the “failure of civil aviation.” Now, the Russian news outlet Kommersant reported that these dismissals follow a Russian report showing civil aviation is in competition with military aviation, and it’s even worse for Russia’s civil aviation industry than previously thought.