Indo-Russian transport aircraft to fly by 2017

New Delhi: The Indo-Russian Multi-role Transport Aircraft (MTA), designed to replace India's AN 32 aircraft, should be flying in about seven years, a Russian official has said. The aircraft would be useful in natural disaster relief missions. Vladimir A Belyakov, Deputy Director General of the United Aircraft Company (UAC), told India Strategic (www.indiastrategic.in) after the signing of the bilateral agreement between the two countries on producing this medium category twin-engine aircraft that it should take about a year to do the preliminary design and another one and a half years to do the detailed design. ...Read More