Russia's ministry for industry and trade is moving forward on civilian supersonic jets, including opening a tender soliciting technological innovation proposals. The ministry is allocating an initial 213 million rubles ($2.9 million) in 2020 and 505 million rubles in 2021 for the tender. Opened in April and with proposals due Dec. 15,2021, the competition is seen as a tool to stimulate the development of technologies and engineering solutions that would facilitate a bigger supersonic business jet effort and overcome current obstacles to the return of civilian supersonic flight.
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