Aerostar blames Russian competition

Aircraft maker Aerostar Bacau has accused the “Russian competition” of having originated several critical press stories that were published in the Zagreb media. The stories criticised the modernisation contract for twelve MIG-21aircraft belonging to the Croatian army, which has been entrusted to the Romanian company this year. “These stories are paid by our competitors and the Russians are likely to be doing it,” Aerostar general manager Grigore Filip said. “We are running the contract signed with the Croatian partner and have not received any complaints. There were discussions, and we solved everything by negotiations, but they did not return a single plane,” Filip added. ZF