Engines & Avionics

For several years now, Russian engine developers have been in co-operation with foreign companies upgrading engines in stock and designing new ones. United Technologies Corporation is actively co-operating with the Perm Engine Company, Energomash Design Bureau, Khimavtomatika Design Bureau, Kazan Helicopter Plant and Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant. The General Electric company has been carrying out long-term projects with the Rybinsk Motors joint stock company. CFMI, SNECMA, Turbomeca companies are successfully introducing their products in the Russian market.

International cooperation occupies a notable place in the activities of Russian ventures. Energomash has made the RD-180 engine for the American Atlas V launch vehicle. The Khimmash Research Institute has tested a liquid propellant rocket motor which was sponsored by the United Launch System company The Khimavtomatika Design Bureau is co-developing a new lox/liquid hydrogen engine.

The NK-33 engine designed by the Kuznetsov SNTK has been supplied to the Aerojet company for the K1 reusable carrier rocket now in development. Simultaneously, Russia is successfully producing components of foreign companies' engines.

New avionics suites are widely created for aircraft that are at the design and upgrade stages. They are both purely Russian developments and a number of projects performed jointly with companies Allied Signal, Rockwell Collins, Litton, Litef.