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Russia Is Struggling to Build Warplanes

Summary by Newsweek
Satellite imagery shows expansion at Russia's Kazan Aviation Plant but production is being hampered by sanctions.

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Russia wants to spend up to a billion euros on the expansion of a Tupolev plant – but the fighter jet construction could have been slowed down.

US magazine Newsweek reported that Russia is having difficulty expanding military aircraft production due to a lack of components due to sanctions and a growing labor shortage.

Russia is unable to produce as many military aircraft as it needs. It cannot replace the equipment destroyed by the Ukrainians during the June attack as part of Operation Web.

Military expert, director of development of information and consulting company Defense Express Valery Ryabykh told about this on Espreso ether, “The Russians lost the opportunity to manufacture strategic bombers. There is no big secret that they use hulls that were made in the USSR for the production of heavy bombers. To equip them, only partially use some new elements. Despite the fact that this equipment was achieved due to modern Western elec…

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Newsweek broke the news in United States on Thursday, July 3, 2025.
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