ArmInfo.Rotax, the healthiest large company in Upper Austria, a subsidiary of the Bombardier Group, has stopped supplying engines to Turkey.
Thus, according to derstandard.at, the decision was made after protests held in front of the company's representative office and against the background of reports that Bayraktar TB2, on which they are installed, are used in hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh.
"Rotax has stopped supplying aircraft engines to "countries with non-clear use of it." This was confirmed by a representative of STANDARD. The company follows the specifications of its owner, the Canadian Bombardier Group," the source notes, adding that these restrictions will affect not only Turkey, but and Iran, since these engines were also equipped with Iranian-made "Shahed 129" UAVs.
To recall, earlier, the Canadian company Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP), under pressure from the media and the public, announced that it was suspending the supply of UAV engines to "countries with non- clear use of it." Quebec-based BRP, better known as the snowmobile maker Ski-Doo and Lynx, said it only learned last week that engines from its Austrian subsidiary Rotax were used for Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones. BRP Senior Vice President Martin Langelier told Radio Canada International that upon receiving this information, they immediately launched a thorough investigation and suspended the supply of aircraft engines to < countries with non-clear use of it>. Martin Langelier stressed that all engines manufactured by Rotax in Austria are certified exclusively for civilian use.