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Russian New Tech in MC-21? interview with Chief Designer Vitaly Yuryevich Naryshkin
May 2, 2025
Figuring It Out Together with the Chief Designer of the MC-21 ❓
🔹 What has already been import-substituted on the test aircraft?
🔹 How did Russian systems perform during the first flight?
🔹 What makes the new domestic MC-21 power supply system unique?
🔹 How many cities, enterprises, and people are involved in the import substitution program?
All this and much more in an interview with Vitaly Yuryevich Naryshkin — Chief Designer of the MC-21 and a truly fascinating conversationalist ✈️
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Vitali Yurvich, please tell me how
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satisfied you are with the results. One
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flight has already been analyzed
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flights. Have you heard from the pilots?
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What's your assessment? My rating is the
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highest, which means that the plane and
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its entire system in flight showed
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everything was wonderfully justified.
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All expectations were not rejected. It
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was the work of a large team,
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specialists from both our KB and the
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Kutsk plant and all our associates. And
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we managed to do this in the first
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flight. The plane looked beautiful. What
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systems? I recommend replacing the
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boards. Well, this aircraft, it is still
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already positioned by us as import
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substituted. First of all, I would like
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to note that this aircraft is equipped
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with our domestic PD14 engines. Although
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he has been with them since birth, but
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now he has them left. So, we replaced it
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here. This is a very important power
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supply system, a very complex system on
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which the operation of those aircraft
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systems depends. This means that our
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power supply system differs from all
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other domestic aircraft and many western
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ones except the most recent in that we
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have it intellectual. It itself can be
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reconfigured in the event of any
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failures. It allows 100% self diagnosis.
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That is all this allows on the one hand
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to be sure of the reliability of this
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system and the safety of aircraft
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operation. On the other hand, the case
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of any identified defects allows you to
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eliminate them promptly, quickly without
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long
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searches. The system is a new generation
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technology, the first of its kind in our
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country with no similar aircraft yet
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utilized.
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In addition, due to the fact that it is
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built on computers on brains, I would
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say compared to the traditional Lily
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system, it is approximately two times
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smaller in size and one and a half times
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less in weight.
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This is an advantage that is weight
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advantages. The weight advantages of the
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property. Yes, that is what we have
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fully realized for this regarding its
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reliability and safety against failures.
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Due to the fact that it is smart, that
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it is reconfigured, that it is very
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channeled, its reliability will fail due
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to safety, not at the highest level. It
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is very important that almost all
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onboard electronic speed has been
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replaced on this
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aircraft. Radio, communication,
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navigation, landing system, all this
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already cost the fatherland. All this
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showed itself in flight to the best side
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and did not cause any comments. So in
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addition, we already have almost
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domestic hydraulic systems on board. All
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units, domestic air conditioning and air
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systems, all
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domestic. Well, many of our other units
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were originally our father needed his
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own chassis. We had our own
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monitors. So we are gradually making the
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plane completely Russian. It's a big
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challenge design engineering. I believe
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that the fact that we had the
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opportunity and were given the task to
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make a domestic aircraft is very good.
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This is very useful. This is to promote
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the growth of personnel as we do in our
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neighboring countries which gives an
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impetus to technologies both production
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and research and all and all. Therefore,
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our plane is the culmination of a great
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work on importing wills that is
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we. In fact, we are recreating our
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aviation industry, instrument industry
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as it was in Soviet times at the world
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level and regardless of who we are now
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leaving. I count on the same level and
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we will make our system our systems and
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our aircraft no worse than the West.
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Speaking of cooperation, please tell me
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who did what for this plane. Well, the
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Kutzk aviation plant crafted the
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glider. The wing was made by aerero
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composer Ulanovsk compositionally our
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wing engines ODK perm motors perm
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aircraft engine. The main part of the
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brao complex was supplied by RPKB
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Ramensa radius equipment. This is our
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priman nogor aircraft equipment system
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at
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KBPs. That is our entire country is
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involved in cooperation. Everyone worked
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on this aircraft.
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That's if in general calculate how many
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people worked to make it sink today. How
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many enterprises took place across the
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country and how many I will not say the
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enterprises now but as I did the
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calculation that is the construction of
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this aircraft involved more than 20,000
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people and more than 200 enterprises.
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What are the plans in the future for
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certification tests for factory tests
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for lifting the next machine? This means
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that this aircraft is intended for
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astition tests. It will have I hope not
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a long program of factory finishing to
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bring all the systems to the working
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stage and we will begin certification.
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That is sectional work will be carried
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out in relation to those import
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substituted systems that are already on
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it. In such Crimea, the next one is now
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under construction. Our machine 13, it
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will already be completely import
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substituted and we will use it to close
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those sectional works that will not be
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able to close on this machine.
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Well, please tell me the key systems
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that affect aircraft driving in general
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as it were safety.
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The flight of the plane, they are
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already standing here in the state. A
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key system that primarily affects the
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flying aircraft, its controllability and
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the safety of control systems. It was
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originally
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domestic. MIA developments with our
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algorithms with SAG algorithms.
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The drives were French, but the next car
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will already have a domestic drive from
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the Pavlovsk plant, so it will be
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completely excellent. There's a contrast
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between collaborating with foreign and
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Russian suppliers. Russian collaboration
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is more comfortable. We speak the same
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language. We think the same way.
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Although it must be said that we had to
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learn a lot from our Western
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partners. We had different approaches
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initially and a lot of useful things
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could be taken from them. It also
6:06
increased our intellectual capacity
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to be we with 21 will be a competitor to
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the Boeing 737 Airbus 320 here in your
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segment. Will it be in terms of
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comfort? In terms of technology, a
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competitor to a real world leader?
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No. Well, in terms of comfort, we beat
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them by a long way. That is we have the
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most spacious fuselage. That is
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passengers who evaluate how comfortable
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they sit. You will definitely like this
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plane. Here is the technological
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capability well technological capability
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in manufacturing and operation. We try
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to ensure that in operation for the
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airline this aircraft is not inferior to
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Boeing at all to you.
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