A prototype of the new Il-212 transport aircraft should be ready by the end of 2026

March 5 2024 22

The production of a prototype of the new Il-212 military transport aircraft is scheduled for the end of 2026. The head of the department, Sergei Shoigu, announced this at a conference call at the Russian Ministry of Defense. According to him, the United Aircraft Corporation has already begun developing the technical design of the Il-212.

These aircraft will replace the aging An-26 and An-72 fleet. The new transport aircraft will be distinguished by increased payload and flight range, ease of refueling and maintenance

- said the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation.

He added that the new military transport aircraft will be able to use unpaved, unequipped runways, and also operate in Arctic latitudes.

The United Aircraft Corporation has already begun developing a technical design for the aircraft. Production of the prototype is planned for the end of 2026

Shoigu emphasized.

At the meeting at the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the issue of maintaining the serviceability of the An-124 Ruslan heavy military transport fleet was also discussed. According to Sergei Shoigu, this task is being solved in the interests of the military department by the UZGA joint-stock company, which is successfully implementing measures to import substitution of Ukrainian-made engine elements.

To date, 49 engines have been repaired and put into operation.

- said the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation.

According to Shoigu, repairs and modernization will extend the service life of An-124 aircraft from 20 to 45 years.

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populist

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5 March 2024 13: 53

that is never
1. steelmaker
  
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  5 March 2024 14: 22
  
  In 2026 it will simply be shifted to the right until 2030. And then, if it works out, 2-3 pieces. they will do it a year.
rotkiv04

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5 March 2024 14: 24

storytellers
bobnew2017

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5 March 2024 15: 05

I think they said this in 2010
faiver

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5 March 2024 16: 42

the main thing is to warn when to start clapping
svoroponov

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5 March 2024 17: 47

This one will be done quickly. The engines will be jet engines and they already exist. The airframe will be redesigned from 112, with the strength recalculated for the required weight characteristics, with its components and mechanisms immediately matching the required standard size of the cargo compartment with the required alignment, and so on. So let's wait. Of course, you can be sarcastic, but have you at least invented something in life, or are you consumers of someone else’s stuff? At the beginning of the Northern Military District, too, for a number of weapons and UAVs, I observed Yaroslava’s crying here. However, now the mourners have somehow subsided. It will be the same here. They will make it and put it on the wing, as they say in aviation. Well, many people need to remember that design competence is developed through trial and error. Negative experience is also experience. By the way, 112 was not so bad, it’s just that the engine was not finished, and perhaps the poor quality of some of the components. Such engines have also never been made based on their specifications before. Look, the compressor blades of English training fighters are still being torn off, even though they are serial and have been flying for many years. Yes, and for other, Western first samples, and even serial ones, I would really like to see the real statistics, starting with tests. But unfortunately, they won’t print this, it’s a secret. Although we can judge the V-22 Osprey.
Every third board of a new aircraft during testing in the USA suffered a catastrophe or a serious accident, this is from what we were told when I had shoulder straps and the Western press was not yet so nonsensical.
1. Vladimir1155
  
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  5 March 2024 21: 29
  
  I’m not an aviator, but with IL 112 it seems to me that the problem was in trying to cram something that couldn’t be squeezed in, that is, a very small, but quite wide-body, which can be seen with the naked eye, that is, either make a larger plane, or cut down on the desired dimensions of cargo, and generally transport cars by plane this is absurd, if the 212 is longer, it can carry the required dimensions of cargo. What do you say as a specialist?, I’m interested in your opinion
  1. svoroponov
    
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    5 March 2024 22: 36
    
    There was a task to make a military transport middle side to replace the An-24. We received technical specifications from the military. We designed it and started making it. But then the military decided to transport new equipment on it, which did not quite fit into the dimensions of the cargo compartment. At the assembly stage, they began alterations - they expanded the body and received an increase in weight and a change in alignment. The board turned out to be overweight for the engines that were originally designed for it. We tried to fix it in different ways. But the fact is that the engines are new with their childhood diseases.
    Well, then it’s just chance. Possible turbine blade breakage. And this is like a burst of fire from a cannon at an airplane. The blade flies off and also damages the neighboring blades. The radial acceleration of many tons acts on the blades during the flight. Destruction of fuel pipelines with damage to the control system in the wing. As a rule - a fire. The flame is almost like from a gas burner. The fire extinguishing system in such a fire is useless. Moreover, the fire could also develop on the outside of the wing due to damage and fuel release. Violation of the strength of the power elements or burnout, the wing is not controllable and the wing falls over. The altitude for leaving is not sufficient and the only hope for a quick landing has not yet happened. What I wrote about just above. But fate is visible. Didn't have time to sit down
    It could really be a destruction of the fuel line; there is a decent amount of fuel pressure in it. The result would have been the same.
    Yes, this could happen at any stage of the test, even at the end of it.
2. Pembo
  
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  6 March 2024 18: 13
  
  This one will be done quickly. The engines will be jet engines and they already exist. The airframe will be redesigned from 112, with the strength recalculated for the required weight characteristics, with its components and mechanisms immediately matching the required standard size of the cargo compartment with the required alignment, and so on
  
  I don't know what you designed, but you're talking nonsense. Firstly, no one designs without looking back at previous designs and proven technical solutions. On the other hand, all transport workers are similar to each other. High-wing aircraft, often with a T-shaped tail; turbofans have a swept wing, a spacious fuselage with a hatch in the tail.
  The Il-212 has a different airframe - a swept wing, while the Il-112 has a straight one. The fuselage is larger. You can't "strengthen" the chassis twice. A different design may be required. With the same success, and even with greater success, you can take the IL-76 and scale it up to the IL-212, they are structurally more similar. So this aircraft will have to be designed from scratch, adjusted for the above.
  1. svoroponov
    
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    6 March 2024 21: 16
    
    The picture here and reality may be different. Design an airplane from scratch? How is that? Typically, design is carried out on the basis of existing groundwork and developments. Once again, the size of the fuselage of the 112 after correction is just right for transporting equipment and satisfies the military. So the dimensions will already be left. Yes, it is possible to change the alignment they will change the location of the center section and slightly lengthen the fuselage. Many units have already been tested and will come from 112. They are in production and standardized. They will change the fuel system, possibly by lengthening the fuselage and the volume of fuel tanks in the wing to maintain the given range, since jet engines are somewhat more gluttonous than turboprop engines. So this is probably how it will be. This will reduce the time it takes for the aircraft to go out for testing. And then, it will give you a ticket to life.
    1. Pembo
      
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      6 March 2024 23: 48
      
      The Il-212 will have take-off thrust twice as much as the Il-112, which means the take-off weight is twice as much (An-72 one and a half times). This means the wing area is twice as large, it will be a different wing and most likely swept, which, in combination with turbofan engines, allows it to fly at higher speeds. The wing has a center section that is integral with the fuselage, which means the fuselage in the center section area must be redesigned. The large wing area requires an increase in the area of the horizontal tail, which means strengthening and redesigning the tail, which can lead to a redesign of the cargo hatch. Doubling the mass will require a radical redesign of the landing gear and fuselage structure in the landing gear area. The cabin does not need to be changed. And extending the fuselage is really simple. Judge for yourself, the airframe will have to be designed practically from scratch.
Wooh

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6 March 2024 07: 42

I am an old pensioner, after graduating from an institute in radio electronics, I began working for the USSR Navy in 1972 as a young specialist. Became a qualified developer around 1976. Thank God that there were older and experienced specialists, i.e. there was continuity. If it weren’t for her, me and the other youngsters would have had to gain experience longer. So the current shifts in deadlines are associated not only with cutting, but also with the lack of continuity, which was destroyed in the 90s. I then went from being a highly qualified engineer to becoming a tradesman. I want to eat something.
1. prior
  
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  6 March 2024 09: 33
  
  A look without rose-colored glasses.
  Before retiring, I worked in the field of microelectronics.
  Over the past ten years, I have constantly noted to myself at the end of the year: “We have never worked as poorly as this year.”
  And so from year to year for a number of years.
  What to expect from such development?
  Maybe new promises instead of new planes.
  The existing system in the country is sterile by definition, and is alive only thanks to the sale of everything that can still be sold.
  1. svoroponov
    
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    6 March 2024 21: 29
    
    You remember only what happened to you then, long ago, when the collapse was going on. Now times and customs are different. Therefore, what was then should not be transferred to what is now. Microelectronics is being successfully restored, and probably, if you were placed in this environment now and with your knowledge, you wouldn’t be writing this here about how bad everything is.
Sergey_K

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6 March 2024 08: 47

Something is “hard to believe”... Beria needs it. And we have “manturov”...
1. UAZ 452
  
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  6 March 2024 19: 45
  
  Everyone remembers that Beria was shot, and even his name was mixed with mud. So there is no queue of people wanting to become the “new Beria”, and is not expected in the foreseeable future.
UAZ 452

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6 March 2024 19: 50

That is, they finally admitted that the IL-112 project, and therefore the IL-114, is all? Failed? So what are the chances that new projects will not share the same fate as those named? Or is the task not to create an airplane, but simply to manage the budget?
1. Nelton
  
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  6 March 2024 21: 23
  
  Quote: UAZ 452
  which means that IL-114 is all?
  
  Just today it became known that on March 4, the IL-114 made runs with the front strut coming off.
  https://t.me/aviadispet4er_chat/175390
  
  https://aviation21.ru/vtoroj-opytnyj-samolyot-il-114-300-proxodit-podgotovku-k-pervomu-polyotu/
Mongolor

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24 March 2024 08: 39

But in reality? a system without responsibility does not work except on the thirst for profit, but even then responsibility is needed.
Mongolor

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24 March 2024 08: 40

MS should have already flown and 112 IL too
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Mongolor

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24 March 2024 08: 41

What about three-circuit engines and remotorization of the Il96, how about the 330 Ila, it seems when the MS 21 Yakovlevsky and just bring the Yak 41 to mind and start improving it to the 201st, because without wings there is no way over the sea, and it makes an aircraft carrier a cargo ship or a tanker like the Persians ( By the way, you can adopt the idea) as well as the use of Sea Harriers in World War II convoys from transports. It is impossible to dominate the sea without dominating the skies Churchill W.S.L.
Mongolor

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24 March 2024 08: 42

I don’t understand why, even before the SVO, a law was not passed that 51% of the company’s aircraft, and in general, in addition to private ones, must have a structure similar to the Soviet Aeroflot... must be Russian? Do you want to sell Boeing Airbus airliners? allow ours into your market, otherwise we financed other companies and economies and in response there were sanctions... and our developments were underfunded... a madhouse and now they write about three-circuit engines, but our two-room engines are still imperfect and it turns out that we are lagging behind... and the USSR was going into leg and was ahead of something
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