MOSCOW. March 6 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian-Ukrainian commission on military-technical cooperation on Wednesday discussed a set of technical, financial and organizational issues related to implementation of the program on development and serial production of the new AN-70 transport plane, Leonid Terentyev, director general of the Medium Transport Plane international consortium, said on Wednesday.
The session had a coordination nature, Terentyev told Interfax-Military News Agency. Its participants discussed a plan of measures to be taken to launch the plane's serial production at the Polyot production enterprise.
According to specialists, the enterprise which currently produces AN-3 Colt and AN-74 Coaler planes will have to establish 500 to 700 workplaces already at the initial stage of the production. A total of 2,700 people will be needed for full-scale mass production of the AN-70.
Terentyev praised the recent decision on the production of seven D-27 engines for the AN-70. Four of them will be mounted on the plane's second prototype while the other three will be engaged in batch tests.