KIEV, July 1 - State enterprise Pivdenne Design Bureau (Dnipropetrovsk) is working on a plan to establish cooperation with the United States in building rocket engines, Pivdenne CEO and Chief Designer Oleksandr Dehtiarev said.

The Ukrainian developer is ready to become a partner in the project initiated by the U.S. government to build rocket engines to replace the Russian built RD-180 used in American carrier rockets.