Russia threatens to retaliate against US trade war: prohibite the sale of aerospace engines to US!

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

Russia threatens to retaliate against US trade war: prohibite the sale of aerospace engines to US!
08:39:54 Global Internet Military


[Global Network Military Report] "Russia can consider restricting the supply of rocket engines to the United States that they cannot do without, in order to counteract the US tariff increase on Russian steel." The Russian State News Agency reported on the 3rd that experts from the Russian Institute of Strategic Investigation said that As the United States raises tariffs on Russian steel, Russia should take countermeasures like China. In addition to limiting the titanium alloys required for exporting to the United States, the Russian side can also restrict the supply of Russian rocket engines to the United States. Russian experts believe that this move will cause a major blow to the US aerospace industry.

Russia’s “Parliament News” reported that in 1997, Russia’s research and production consortium for power machinery signed a cooperation agreement with the United States, requiring that a total of 101 RD-180 rocket engines be delivered to the United States before the end of 2018 for use as US “cosmic god-5” carriers. Rocket first-class engine. The "Astronomy-5" rocket bears the mission of launching an important US satellite and is one of the main US carrier rockets. In 2014, the U.S. private company, Orbital Science Corp., and the Russia Power Machinery Research and Production Consortium signed a one-billion-dollar contract again and plans to purchase 60 RD-181 rocket engines from Russia.

Regarding the extent to which the United States depends on Russian rocket engines, in January this year, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Rogozin said that Russia has been selling RD-180 rocket engines to the United States, and the order will be valid until 2020. The price of rocket motors manufactured by the United States itself is twice as high as that of Russian products, and its reliability still needs to be verified. Last December, after US President Trump announced the resumption of the moon plan, Russian member Pashkov questioned how Americans landed on the moon. He said on Twitter: "Returning to the moon? Great. But how do Americans don't rocket engines there? Know that they don't even have our engines and they can't even reach the International Space Station." Expert of Russia's "Aerospace News" magazine Fanashyev said that abandoning the RD-180 rocket engine will cause a heavy blow to the US aviation industry, especially the launch of US military satellites. Within a few years the United States could not find a replacement for the RD-180.

In fact, the United States has always wanted to get rid of its dependence on Russian rocket engines. The "Wall Street Journal" once reported that since the time required by the United States to develop and apply domestically produced engines exceeded expectations, it may be necessary to purchase rocket engines from Russia by 2028. According to reports, at present, the United States is facing great difficulties in developing new BE-4 rocket engines. Despite spending huge sums of money, R&D work is not smooth. ▲(Liu Yupeng)

 

[ashok321]

http://ec2-174-129-141-77.compute-1.amazonaws.com/be4

 

[Sankpal]

Russia should stop providing engine to US, US approach towards Russia is not acceptable.

 

[Maxpane]

Another cold war ?

 

[Oldman1]

Russia should stop providing engine to US, US approach towards Russia is not acceptable.

Let them. It's not going to hurt the U.S. except the company that buys Russian engines.

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

You forget the sat companies,they need pay much more money,as a result, the sat user companies do as well!
At least several hundreds or thousands companies affacted! coz the lanching rocket cost doubled!

 

[A.P. Richelieu]

Let them. It's not going to hurt the U.S. except the company that buys Russian engines.

It is certainly going to hurt the Russian company that sells the engines.
I doubt they will find other customers easily.
Classic bullet in Your own foot.

 

[oprih]

Good job Russia, it will hurt america and their lap dogs hard.

 

[Skull and Bones]

More business for SpaceEx I believe.

 

[Vassnti]

3% of Russian steel products go to the US

https://www.trade.gov/steel/countries/pdfs/exports-russia.pdf

Considering Russia makes some of the worlds best rocket engines you would think the money lost in closing down a top high tech market over a spat about steel is crazy. Do what the Chinese have done ban crap American whiskey and keep selling the rockets.

 

[Oldman1]

Good job Russia, it will hurt america and their lap dogs hard.

Lol! No it's not. Don't believe that article. Prevent America from launching military satellites? Lol!!!

3% of Russian steel products go to the US

https://www.trade.gov/steel/countries/pdfs/exports-russia.pdf

Considering Russia makes some of the worlds best rocket engines you would think the money lost in closing down a top high tech market over a spat about steel is crazy. Do what the Chinese have done ban crap American whiskey and keep selling the rockets.

Hopefully the Russians do stop selling the rockets. They already losing customers to the U.S. that has more rocket launch compare to Russia and China.

 

[Dante80]

For those in the know, this is a pretty idle threat from Rogozin (not his most hilarious though, the best one was some years ago about US astronauts using a trampoline to reach the ISS). He had proclaimed the exact same in 2014, after the sanctions for Crimea/Ukraine kicked in. Of course, nothing happened.

RD-180 is a terrific ORSC rocket engine, and a pretty mandatory part in fielding the Atlas V LV. ULA though, has already procured in advance (engines are very long lead items) all the engines they need for the EELV 1a phase contracts and NASA CRS, CC, and science missions. They are also moving on with the Vulcan LV platform, due to the congressional mandate for moving away from Russian engines in the first place.

Vulcan is set to replace Atlas V by 2023, and ULA is currently evaluating two engines for replacing the RD-180. BE-4 by Blue Origin, and AR-1 from AJR. They are supposed to make a decision this year about which one will be used on Vulcan, with BE-4 being in the lead heavily (the engine is already built and undergoing full scale testing, since it is predominantly designed for the New Glenn LV that Blue Origin is building).

RD-181 is a different beast. After the Cygnus CRS Orb-3 LoM, where the root cause of the failure was found to be the re-furbished AJ-26 (Russian NK-33) engine that the Antares LV used (said engines were built in the late sixties for the N-1 moon rocket, stored when the project was terminated and bought by AJR after the dissolution of the USSR), Orbital/ATK tried to also procure the RD-180 engine from NPO Energomash. Since NPO though had an exclusivity contract with ULA for the RD-180, they had to search for another engine, so they chose the RD-181 (which is a variant of the RD-191 that was developed for the Russian Angara LV family).

Orbital ATK has already procured a good number of RD-181 engines for the CRS and CRS-2 programs, in a contract that was close to a billion dollars in worth three years ago. They will certainly need more engines to complete their CRS-2 program obligations, but also have the option on fielding Cygnus on the Atlas V 401 LV (something that they have already done thrice after the Orb-3 disaster).

Hope that helps, cheers.