Maksim covers aerospace developments in Central Asia for Aviation Week. He has worked for Russia's Air Transport Observer magazine and was in charge of several ATO sister aerospace publications after working for the Moscow-based CAST defense think tank.
Maksim has a degree in international relations from MGIMO University, Moscow.
The Russian military plans to use a new Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik (Hunter) unmanned combat air vehicle to expand the radar coverage of the Su-57 fifth-generation fighter.
Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation has assembled a first fuselage for the Ilyushin Il-96-400M, a stretched variant of Il-96 widebody passenger aircraft.
