The Ministry of Industry and Trade has announced a tender for 15.6 billion rubles for conducting ground and flight tests of the maximum import-substituted modification of the SSJ-New aircraft. It is necessary to complete the work - to prepare a bench base, to test the airframe units and its systems and to produce prototypes - by November 15, 2023.

The result should be "a maximum reduction in the share of imported and a corresponding increase in the composition of domestic systems and components of the RRJ-95 aircraft." According to Kommersant sources, now the share of imported components in SSJ is at least 70%. In December 2020, the head of Rostec, Sergey Chemezov, said that a 97% import-substituted version of the SSJ with a Russian PD-8 engine should appear in 2024. He estimated the cost of development at 120 billion rubles.

The technical task does not formulate the final result and clear goals, the interlocutors in the aviation industry and technical specialists note. They attribute this "both to the unwillingness of performers to be responsible for the result, and to the fact that it is unattainable within 2023." "The task to produce prototypes with the notes "in the volume of 2023" means that at least something needs to be done. For example, they will make only an updated frame of wing consoles for the suspension of a new engine, but without the engine itself, without aircraft systems, etc. Therefore, they do not write that the samples will be "flight"," one of the interlocutors of Kommersant believes.