Russia offers India commercial aircraft production unit

• Russia has offered India a joint production venture of Russian-Ukrainian commercial aircraft.
• Manufacturing unit for production will include AN-148
• AN-148 is a modern regional aircraft designed for passenger, cargo-passenger and cargo transportation on domestic and international routes.
• The aircraft was designed by Antonov Aeronautical Scientific and Technical Complex. The aircraft manufacturing is carried out under license at JSC "Voronezh Aircraft Manufacturing Company" (VASO JSC), Voronezh, Russia.
• India and Russia share a long standing strategic partnership and the two countries are involved in many military hardware joint ventures.
• The two nations signed a protocol agreement to jointly design and develop fifth generation fighter aircraft and multi-role transport aircraft.
• India as of now is not producing any passenger jets and Western majors have the major market share in long and middle range airplanes in the country.