Russia plans to secure at least 10 percent of the world airliner market with new passenger jets it hopes will lift its aviation industry out of its post-Soviet slump, the country's biggest manufacturer said on Wednesday (August 22). President Vladimir Putin has said he hopes to revive Russia's once mighty aviation sector by merging civilian and military aircraft makers into one giant state-controlled holding, known as the United Aviation Corporation. The corporation, known by its initials UAC, has ambitious plans to sell 250 billion U.S. dollars worth of aircraft by 2025 and overtake even Soviet-era production records to compete on the world market with Boeing Co and Airbus. "We aspire to 10 percent of the world market," Igor Shevchuk, the president of plane maker Tupolev which is now part of UAC, told reporters at the MAKS-2007 airshow east of Moscow. "Our strategic task is to take third place among the world's aircraft-producing countries by 2015-2018," said Shevchuk, who is also...
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