>>1326561I mean the Franco-Russian engines are developed from the CFM-56 design. It's just a smaller engine core with a bit less bypass in order to fit the engines under the wing. They're comparable to the CF-34s GE make for regional jets like the CRJ and the E-Jet. The PowerJet SaM 146 is just that, taking the CF-34 role and using CFM-56 designs to make an engine which Safran *can* reliably make, but an engine which the Russians haven't really made before.
Fun fact, Embraer is moving to the PW1000G from Pratt & Whitney. This is the same engine in use by the A320neo (as an engine option along with the CFM Leap). The other aircraft which should use the PW1000G is the MC-21, which is currently in development hell, as now the American built engines and avionics cannot be imported into Russia, and once again, the UAC designed a plane with 50% foreign parts for reliability and exportability.
Now, the Russians are looking to the Chinese who aren't interested because they're making the competing C919, and Russia has no real modern engine for the MC-21 or any real modern avionics, at least for civilian use. The MC-21 even has a cockpit designed by the same company which designed the 787's cockpit. And now, thanks to Russian politics (and geopolitics), the MC-21 is going to be filled with half-assed Russian and Chinese parts, because the American and European parts are banned from entering Russia, because Russia doesn't like the West punishing them for annexing Crimea.
