Airlifter Project Heralds Start Of Saudi Aerospace Ambitions

Tony Osborne Maxim Pyadushkin June 29, 2017
Saudi Arabia and Ukraine seem an unlikely pair when it comes to aircraft development. However, Saudi Arabia’s vision of moving its economy away from depending on oil production and building more of its own defense equipment by 2030—combined with Ukraine’s ambition to become more closely integrated...
Tony Osborne

Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines.

Maxim Pyadushkin

In addition to writing for Aviation Week Network, Maxim holds a key position at Russia's Air Transport Observer magazine. In the past he was in charge of several ATO’s sister aerospace publications and earlier worked for Moscow-based CAST defense think-tank.

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