Roman Svitan: Lukashenko Will Not Succeed In Creating An Airplane

The regime wants to help the Russian aviation industry circumvent sanctions.

Lukashenko's regime announced plans to create "the first Belarusian civilian airplane" - in close cooperation with Russia.

How can this project be assessed: is the regime really capable of creating a reliable airplane, or does Belarus risk repeating the fate of the Russian Superjet-100, which regularly malfunctions and crashes?

This is the question Charter97.org posed to Charter97.org, a colonel of the AFU in reserve, military expert and flight instructor Roman Svitan:

- Belarus has part of the sanctions now lifted. Maybe this is just one of the mechanisms of how to build an airplane, or maybe this is one of the options of how, bypassing sanctions, to infuse the Russian aircraft industry with European and American devices, units and assemblies. There is such a possibility. It could be the launch of the very topic on the creation of some common airplane, and under it - to buy sub-sanctioned for Russia units and assemblies.

I think this is still the case, because it is impossible to create an airplane with Russia. I would believe if Belarus could make some units and assemblies with China, but not the airplane itself. Belarus does not have an airplane building fleet - it simply does not exist. Belarus can make assemblies and units: some electronic boards, maybe servo drives. But it is unrealistic to develop a complete airplane on the basis of Belarus.

And to be pulled up to Russia as a supplier - yes, it can be. It is precisely these sub-sanctioned devices that Russia cannot buy itself. So creating an airplane is unrealistic. I think there is something different here.

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