The Russian-Indian program to develop the multirole transport aircraft (MTA) has been terminated, Russian Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov said.

"In practice, not all projects yield results. During the execution of the project, which lasted five years, we did not manage to find such a solution that would be beneficial for the two countries," Manturov said in reply to a question about whether the joint development of the multirole plane had been terminated. 

"This does not mean that the relations have been broken off," he added. 

According to him, Russia will switch to other more interesting projects being executed with India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Corporation. 

In late 2016, CEO of Russia’s Ilyushin Company Sergei Velmozhkin said that the Russian-Indian program to develop the military transport plane had been frozen. 

Media organizations reported in early 2015 that Russia and India were planning to agree on the pre-contract documentation on the MTA plane in the third quarter. 

As President of Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation Yuri Slyusar said, there were plans to start designing the plane before the end of 2016.