In addition to writing for Aviation Week Network, Maxim holds a key position at Russia's Air Transport Observer magazine (www.ato.ru). In the past he was in charge of several ATO sister aerospace publications and earlier worked for the Moscow-based CAST defense think-tank.
Maxim has a degree on international relations from MGIMO University, Moscow, Russia, and for several years worked at the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The Russian military plans to use a new Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik (Hunter) unmanned combat air vehicle to expand the radar coverage of the Su-57 fifth-generation fighter.
Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation has assembled a first fuselage for the Ilyushin Il-96-400M, a stretched variant of Il-96 widebody passenger aircraft.
