Brazil, China and Russia rolling out new aircraft programmes, but where is India?

China and Russia are separately developing next generation aircraft programmes with the launch of the MC-21 (Irkut/UAC) and C919 (Comac/AVIC) narrowbody programmes, respectively, to challenge the duopoly of Airbus and Boeing, whose aircraft are increasingly dominating their home markets. Brazil could also step up with a new larger aircraft type. Of the four emerging BRIC economies, this leaves India out of the loop when it comes to domestic aircraft manufacturing.