Motor Sich

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Joint Stock Company Motor Sich

Central entrance to the Motor Sich plant
Industry	Aerospace industry Defence
Founded	1907; 117 years ago (1907)
Headquarters	Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Aircraft engines, Turbojet engines
Net income	₴3.3 billion (2015)[1][2]
Total assets	₴20.7 billion (2015)[1]
Number of employees	21,860 (December, 2010)[3]
Website	https://motorsich.com/eng/

The Motor Sich Joint Stock Company (Ukrainian: АТ «Мотор Січ») is a Ukrainian aircraft engine manufacturer headquartered in Zaporizhzhia. The company manufactures engines for airplanes and helicopters as well as industrial marine gas turbines and installations.

Motor Sich currently^[when?] produces the Ivchenko Progress D-18 turbofan which powers variants of the Antonov An-124 and An-225 freighters, although the Ivchenko Progress D-36/Ivchenko Progress D-436 series remain the highest production-rate engines in the CIS.

Motor Sich inherited some of the former Soviet Union's aero engine manufacturing capabilities. It produces turbofan, turboprop and rotary-wing turboshaft engines that power aircraft in Russian service, such as Mi- and Ka-series military helicopters.^[4]

In 2017 Beijing's Skyrizon Aviation purchased a 41% holding in Motor Sich. Skyrizon Aviation had agreed to first invest $250 million in the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia plants and help Motor Sich to set up a new assembly and servicing plant in Chongqing.^[5]

The company announced that it planned to launch its own helicopter, dubbed Hope, in 2018.^[6]

Some individuals, including former counsel to the US Senate Foreign Relation Committee, William C. Triplet, have criticized Ukraine for allowing Motor Sich to conduct business with Chinese firms. Oleh Lyashko, leader of Ukraine’s Radical Party, said if the US does not want Motor Sich to be closer with the Chinese, then they need to buy enough aircraft engines.^[7]

Motor Sich severed ties with Russia in 2014, its biggest client, and consequently made efforts to find new markets. In the administration of President Donald Trump, Washington added Skyrizon to a Military End-User (MEU) List. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy then signed a decree imposing sanctions on Skyrizon to restrict its trading operations, while the company responded with a $3.5 billion arbitration case.^[8]

On 11 March 2021, the Ukrainian government announced its intention to nationalize Motor Sich by buying back shares from Chinese holders.^[9] Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov said the government's decision is to "return Motor Sich to the Ukrainian people" and that "investors will be compensated".^[10]

Several Turkish military products use Motor Sich engines, including the Bayraktar TB2, Bayraktar Akinci, Bayraktar Kızılelma, TAI Anka-3 drones and the TAI T929 ATAK 2 helicopter.^[11][12] Director-General of Motor Sich, Vyacheslav Bohuslayev noted that a $100 million loan from China needs to be repaid in 2026.^[13]

Among the company's new products is the MS-500V turboshaft engine, originally intended for the Russian Ansat helicopter.

The Motor-Sich plant in Zaporizhzhia was destroyed by Russian forces in late May 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[14]

On November 6, 2022, the government of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy used martial law to nationalise the company, alleging that "Such steps, which are necessary for our country in conditions of war, are carried out in accordance with current laws and will help meet the urgent needs of our defense sector." The government of Ukraine also took control of truck maker KrAZ, energy companies Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta and transformer maker Zaporozhtransformator at the same time.^[15] Skyrizon accused Ukraine of "unjustified plundering."^[16]

• Zaporizhzhia Engine Engineering Factory, Zaporizhzhia
• Omelchenko Engineering Factory (1988), Zaporizhzhia
• Snizhne Engineering Factory (1970), Snizhne
• Volochysk Engineering Factory (1971), Volochysk
• Motor Sich Airlines (1984)
• Aleks TV (1995), local television company

In 2011 it acquired Orsha Engineering Factory, Orsha, Belarus.

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  Progress D-18T engine manufactured by Motor Sich
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  Progress D-436 engine manufactured by Motor Sich
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  Motor Sich MS-500V engine
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  Ukrainian Modernization Mil Mi-8MSB-V
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  Modernized Mil Mi-24P in Ukraine Army service
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  Progress AI-136T turboshaft for Mi-26

• Motor Sich Airlines
• FC Motor Zaporizhzhia
• HC Motor Zaporizhzhia

• Ivchenko-Progress
• List of aircraft engine manufacturers

Media related to Motor Sich at Wikimedia Commons

• JSC Motor-Sich web site