"As for the aircraft industry, in addition to military and combat aircraft, the production of which we doubled last year, we pay a lot of attention to civil aviation," Chemezov said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"As for the helicopter industry, in 2022, our holding Russian Helicopters produced 296 helicopters... the year before there were only 134. This is a significant increase. But this, of course, is primarily due to the increase of the state defense order. For the state defense order, we have doubled the production of military helicopters," Chemezov said.
Russia Needs to Boost Drones Production, Putin Says
"Both the Kub and the Lancet [drones] have shown very effective results: firstly, the explosion is powerful, any equipment, including foreign-made ones, does not just burn, but also ammunition also explodes. The manufacturers promised me that they would increase the production volume. They are keeping this promise, but we need to increase it more," the Russian leader said.