Fighting Boeing and SpaceX: Why the West is begging Russia not to impose a ban on titanium exports

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The loss of such a decision may be much higher than previously thought. In fact, entire space industries in unfriendly countries may be on the brink of extinction.

On April 13, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury, who had previously suspended services in support of Aeroflot, called on Western countries not to impose an embargo on Russian titanium. In his view, this will not hurt Russia, but it will endanger the European aerospace industry.

Titanium supply ban in 2022

According to analysts, Russian company VSMPO-Avisma supplies up to 30 percent of the titanium supply to the global aerospace industry, including up to 40 percent for Boeing, up to 60 percent for Airbus and up to 100 percent for Embraer. Spanish company Aernnova Aerospace also bought Russian titanium, which in turn supplies it to a number of companies including Elon Musk's SpaceX. According to Roman Gusarov, head of the industry portal Avia.ru and an expert on the Transport Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Guillaume Faury's statement made Western politicians want to hear him , apparently unaware of the real consequences of such decisions for the European economy.

Here we are interdependent and mutually interested in the fact that the West does not follow this path (the path of the embargo. - about life). At Airbus, two-thirds of its planes are built with Russian titanium, while at Boeing, every third plane is built with Russian titanium. Can you imagine the volume? That said, almost half of the world's new civil aircraft are made of Russian titanium.

Fighting Boeing and SpaceX: Why the West is begging Russia not to impose a ban on titanium exports

Roman Gusalov

Airbus' chief executive said the company's short- and medium-term titanium needs were met by inventory reserves. He also added that the company started looking for alternative titanium exporters. But is it that easy to find them?

Titanium has been produced and processed in Russia since 1957, when the first titanium ingots were smelted in the furnaces of a factory in the town of Salda in the Upper Urals. It's 65 years of continuous production, a detail-to-detail process, huge capacity through multiple modernizations, a complete and efficient supply chain. Building such a production from scratch would cost billions of dollars. Today, the city-forming enterprise of the world's largest titanium producer, VSMPO-Avisma Corporation, is located in Verkhnyaya Salda. As of February 2022, 90% of Russia's titanium is produced there and exported to at least 50 countries around the world.

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>>16450666

Why the West imposed sanctions on the Russian Federation and how it will affect the aviation industry

Changing a supplier like VSMPO-Avisma would be very difficult and very expensive. The cost of the decision is so high that neither Airbus nor Boeing has released approximate figures so far.

It was reported the other day that Boeing (which suspended titanium purchases indefinitely in March. - Approx. Life) allegedly ordered titanium from Japan and found an alternative supplier. But after a closer look, it turned out that what he ordered from Japan was not a finished product, but a sponge titanium, that is, something that still needs to be processed, which means additional costs.

For its processing, huge electrolytic furnaces are required. For stamping parts, a powerful multi-layer press is required (there is a press at VSMPO-Avisma with a pressure of 75,000 tons. - approx. life), and then the parts are stamped. There are large milling machines, and then these parts are machined, and they are ground. Finishing after machining.

Not to say too much, in principle, it is problematic for a country to master the entire technology chain. If it succeeds, the production cost will be so high that it is difficult to buy products. Titanium sponge is not buried in the ground - you must first extract ilmenite (a mineral derived from titanium and iron oxide), melt it in mining and processing plants, and then process it. The ilmenite mining and dressing enterprise is located in the Tomsk region and develops the Tugan ilmenite zirconium sand deposit. According to experts, the available reserves there will last for 80 years.

The second largest titanium mine is located in the Tambov region. Currently, Soviet and post-Soviet logistics have been rebuilt, with the largest suppliers of ilmenite at the time being Chile, Australia, China and Ukraine. After 2014, ilmenite began to be actively sourced in Senegal and South Africa. In the 2010s, Russia shifted its focus to developing its own ilmenite reserves. We are second only to China in terms of numbers.

Today, no other manufacturer in the world can control the entire production chain with such precision. Even at VSMPO-Avisma, everything is structured: VSMPO works on titanium smelting, Avisma works on stamped products.

Russia has managed to establish this vertical integration, which makes the titanium embargo meaningless. Potentially, if Airbus or Boeing start working with other titanium companies, they will face the risk of inevitable costs, higher purchase prices, etc., and eventually return them to Russia.

Attempts are not torture, or why the West doesn't want to pay

After Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, Airbus has tried to find an alternative but has never found one. No one can supply titanium parts for an aircraft of this quality. If the recognized flagship of the aviation industry starts using parts of untested quality, it risks reputational risk: a crashed plane is enough to ruin Airbus' reputation and ruin contracts worth billions of euros.

Fighting Boeing and SpaceX: Why the West is begging Russia not to impose a ban on titanium exports

You can call out a moratorium on purchases, that's a political statement, and that's what's going on in the West right now. But the next step is to figure out a way to come back quietly (so as not to fall into the boss's eyes), having tested the ground before. For this, you need to wait.

Can they sit for a while (with a cumulative reserve of titanium parts. - Approximate lifespan)? yes. They clearly have some sort of inventory in their warehouses, especially given that demand for planes has dropped due to the pandemic. In fact, even Boeing reported in the first quarter of 2022 that it had produced 95 planes, less than half of what it had before the pandemic. So reserve

According to him, the reserves are clearly not enough to make the long wait. Sooner or later the question of whether to return to Russia or replace Russian titanium entirely will arise. The last one will take years. The workload is enormous, comparable to the Industrial Revolution.

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>>16450666

>>16450670

Elon Musk, what do you think?

Next to the VSMPO-Avisma facility is the titanium workshop of the Ural Boeing Manufacturing Enterprise - a joint production of VSMPO-Avisma and … American Boeing. "Boeing" parts are machined on equipment specially ordered by the U.S. State Department. The equipment remained after Boeing announced it was suspending purchases of Russian titanium.

It is understood that on January 9, 2022, VSMPO-Avisma Corporation signed a contract with Spanish company Aernnova Aerospace for the supply of titanium products until 2028. Recall that this company works with many global companies, including Elon Musk's SpaceX. Time to recall the famous meme " What do you think, Elon Musk?".

Politics is politics, and dinner is on schedule. We took the right stance - no action was taken, everything was within the framework of normal legal relations and we were ready to perform our contractual obligations. This is the West speaking in the form of an ultimatum. But it is a fact that they are testing the waters and moving towards a deal. Such US policies are unprofitable for US companies.

Gusarov added that the lifting of Western sanctions on Russian supplies of fertilizers and communications equipment could indicate that the ice has broken. Finally, we need to understand that we are interdependent here and that everyone needs mutual expediency.

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>>16450773

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>>16450773

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>>16451041

quantum AI knows all. those who are friiendly with it, have the 'vision'.

Gates, Buffet, Blackrock, Amazon, MS, Google, Palantir, Bloomberg, Facebook Pegasus/Promis, unit8200/Team8, D Wave, Sentient World Simulation, Kraken, IBM Q etc etc

>>16451050

Earlier still…

The Culper Spy Ring

>>16451061

yeah, not sure why a new line of text makes the red text not work?

>>16451062

kings/'rulers' and slaves define each other, and thus coexist.

Supporting, enabling, or condoning that belief matrix is the opposite of what we do here.

Smashing the illusions of separation, rank/order, and dominion. With truth- all is whole.

>>16451128

why is that funny to you? You laugh at being in the 'skynet'/matrix, most do not.

>>16451155

doesn't one expect death or 'victory' when entering a combat theatre? yes. why is execution any worse?

>>16451217

yes. understood. but doesn't one expect dying when entering combat, at whatever hands may deliver- accident, equipment/vehicle malfunction, enemy, friendly fire, civilian spies/operators/saboteurs? Why would being executed matter? In other words, when you are in the kill or be killed business, you have an expectation or at least acceptance of death by any means.

Rules of war are dumb. Let's kill each other, destroy our people, land, water, resources, antiquities, psyches of the population, genome, weather, etc…, but only according to the 'rules'.

They are using weather, bio, AI, and nano weapons, yet somehow there are 'rules'.

The whole show is fugazi.

Don't get captured. Do not surrender. If you do, expect the worst. There is no enforcement of any perceived rules or violations.

>>16451294

there is no future. There is only ever now.

Past and future are illusions.

>>16451242

memes are art, but they are also remixes.

At what point is a remix theft?

Warhol tested this.

Can open source, digital art reproductions be stolen? Can an idea, once shared, be stolen?

Or is all for all?

>>16451347

records exist in now, not then. When I read your post, or 'history' it is an action in present, crafting a perception of an illusion outside of now, which will be different for every perceiver. See eyewitness testimonies as example.

future is also an illusion of expectation based on recognized, chosen beliefs in patterns, desires, wishes, plans, and fears. Again, subjective and unique to every perceiver, thus not real.

There is only the Everlasting Now

>>16451378

the mind is a mansion of many rooms. what have you hidden in there?

what do you fear?

what do you beLIEve?

you will face it all.

Pack LIGHT.

Journey well.

>>16451404

you can dance all you want, there is only ever now. The rest is illusion. You can not be anywhere but now. It is always now. Present. The gift. Truth.

Past and future- deceptions rooted in filters, biases, and experience also known as beliefs. That which is other than truth/real.