Rogozin explained why the US buys Russian rocket engines

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USA who consider themselves the most modern country technologyNevertheless, for a long time, RD-180 and RD-181 rocket engines have been purchased from Russia for launching their launch vehicles into space.



Director General of the State Corporation Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin in an interview RIA News" explained that the reason for this seemingly paradoxical phenomenon lies in the fact that Russian engines are the best in terms of price and quality.

According to the head of Roscosmos, the Americans are struggling with the problem of returning from space and reusing their engines because engines manufactured by American enterprises are much more expensive.

In favor of Rogozin’s arguments, the fact is that despite tough restrictive measures against Russia, which, moreover, are constantly being strengthened, the United States continues to purchase Russian rocket engines that have passed the certification of the most difficult level: manned launches are allowed with the help of.

Recall that the United States began to purchase rocket engines from Russia twenty years ago, in 1999. As evidenced by the data of NPO Energomash over the years, 116 rocket engines were sent overseas.
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  1. +1
    19 September 2019 15: 30
    because engines manufactured by American companies are much more expensive

    - everything is logical and stupidly simple. They buy it not because they are special, but because they are cheap. Why the hell to strain spending resources, if you can buy for cheap.
  2. 0
    19 September 2019 15: 55
    ... it would be better if he explained why the Russian Federation sells these engines to an openly hostile state!
    And then in a couple of years we will be informed about the "unexpectedly" deployed by the Americans in space, "right over our heads," as VVP put it, a shock satellite constellation. And you will have to catch up and counteract them ... But hardly anyone will ask, from the same Rogozin, how did all these enemy technologies get there? ...

    116 missile engines were sent overseas.

    - and these are 116 launch vehicles, the devil knows what they can bring there ...
    1. +1
      19 September 2019 17: 54
      1) Money does not smell.
      2) Money goes incl. Rogozin. Only his official salary only according to Roscosmos - like 6 real cosmonauts.
      3) Engines on the cheap. There was an article claiming that part of the price had to be sold below cost because of depreciation. Then they optimized and straightened.
      4) Already reported. About Internet satellites so far ...
      5) Do not ask naturally. He is his capitalist.
      6) Already.
      1. +1
        19 September 2019 17: 59
        ... yes, this is all clear, here you are completely right ... The problem is that IM, apparently, is not clear, or they pretend that it is not clear that the costs of later "catching up" with the Americans in space will be in dozens of times more than what they "earned" on these engines ... This is how they explain it later will be interesting to me ...
  3. Wad
    0
    20 September 2019 05: 12
    And why not buy from the Papuans for beads.