Russian Fighter Aircraft Industrial Base: Parallels with the United States?


 

Publication Date: November 2000

Publisher: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

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Research Area: Military and defense

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Coverage: Russia (Federation)

Abstract:

There are many differences between the fighter aircraft industry in the United States and in Russia. The United States has traditionally produced its weaponry within a capitalist framework which allowed free enterprise and competition between companies in private industry. The former Soviet Union’s economy, and its fighter aircraft industry was based on a Marxist, command economy, where the central government dictated the type and number of aircraft produced and allocated resources for construction.