Russia lacks aircraft engines. manufacture can't keep up

“The main bottleneck in chopper production present is engines. In particular, if we talk about WK-2500,” said Denis Manturov, Minister of manufacture and Trade of the Russian Federation and Deputy Prime Minister during a gathering of the Federation Council Committee for economical Policy. This is simply a hard situation that engines of this kind are utilized in the latest helicopters of the Mi-8 family, but besides on the combat Mi-28, Ka-52 and Mi-35.