The legendary "Kukuruznik" is awaiting a re-motorization program

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The Russian Federation plans to launch production of TVD-10 aircraft engines for An-2 Kukuruznik aircraft. This was announced by the head of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade Anton Alikhanov. According to him, work on upgrading the legendary aircraft is currently being carried out in Omsk.

The aircraft is planned to be equipped with a TVD-10B engine, a modification of a turboprop engine developed back in 1965. A prototype of the modernized An-2 with the new engine should be ready by the summer of 2025.

– Alikhanov said.



He added that this engine will be used not only for re-engining the An-2, but also for further modernization of these aircraft.

It is worth noting that initially a new VK-2 engine was developed for the An-800, but its delivery dates are still unknown. This fact forced the Russian government to change plans and return to the time-tested Soviet unit TVD-10.

It should be added that the Russian Federation also has plans to replace the An-2 with a new multi-purpose aircraft, the Baikal LMS-901. However, to implement them, it is necessary to eliminate all the identified shortcomings of this aircraft.

Let us recall that the light Soviet multipurpose An-2 was developed back in 1947. There are more than two dozen modifications of this machine, which are used in agriculture, the armed forces, and also as a passenger or sports aircraft.

It was produced not only in the USSR, but also in Poland and China. In total, more than 18 thousand such aircraft were produced. At present, the An-2 is still actively used to perform various agricultural tasks, as well as a training aircraft for training pilots.
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  1. Sergey Latyshev
    Sergey Latyshev
    +7
    27 February 2025 15: 17
    Let's remember the famous "galoshes", "rising from our knees" and "there will be no return"
  2. UAZ 452
    UAZ 452
    +9
    27 February 2025 15: 49
    So all the programs for creating a new aircraft for regional aviation can be forgotten? They sawed it up and that's it? And the word "legendary" sounds good, but it's possible to develop to legendary tachankas, Mosin rifles and barges with barge haulers.
  3. Andrey Andreev_2
    Andrey Andreev_2
    +7
    27 February 2025 16: 11
    Screw a jet engine into the Kukuruznik, paint it with anti-radar paint, hang up the Kinzhal... and off we go on the 404! Damn, to what depths has our aircraft industry fallen(( The results of the work of effective managers...
  4. Shelest2000
    Shelest2000
    +5
    27 February 2025 17: 41
    These songs have been heard for years. Has all the allocated money really been squandered and more is needed?
  5. Jim
    Jim
    +2
    27 February 2025 18: 33
    In the early 80s of the last century, I worked at the Antonov Design Bureau, in the department of advanced developments. Once the conversation turned to the An-2, according to the general opinion, such an airplane in the current conditions was absolutely impossible to make. The standards and technical conditions that the An-2 did not meet had changed greatly.
    Production of the An-2 was moved to Poland in the early 60s of the last century.
    They wanted to replace the An-2 with an aircraft with a turbojet engine M-15. A group led by, if my memory serves me right, Izmailov took part in its design. Their operation turned out to be unprofitable, they were put on hold, I think in the Krasnodar region, where they successfully rotted.
    1. Alexey Lan
      Alexey Lan
      +2
      28 February 2025 21: 47
      Their operation turned out to be unprofitable.

      As far as I know, small, local aviation was always unprofitable. As for large aviation, I don't know. It seems that they simply didn't pay much attention to economics in civil aviation. They kept a bunch of ports and platforms with anushkas, as if in case of war. Airfare prices were regulated by the state. Losses were covered from the budget.
  6. Sergei Fonov
    Sergei Fonov
    +4
    27 February 2025 19: 02
    It's all logical, the legendary plane is waiting for no less legendary programs. The only question is whether Kukuruznik will live to see them, or will remain in memory as "legendary". The legendary plane was and is, this is a real fact, legendary programs also seem to have been and exist, but have not yet seen real returns, they are legendary because budget money was allocated for them and they were mastered. Following Musk's example, officials should be forced to write a report on what they did, in what time and how much money they received for it, and everything will immediately become clear.
  7. faiver
    faiver
    +4
    27 February 2025 19: 42
    "effective managers" from the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the United Aircraft Corporation, as always, have screwed up and started a new record, oh yes, we believe them of course laughing
  8. Fizik13
    Fizik13
    +2
    28 February 2025 05: 09
    Even today, the AN-2 is an excellent aircraft in terms of flight characteristics for the territory of Russia. There is the AN-3, but its center of gravity is simply awful, there have already been so many aviation accidents, but the AN-2 takes off from a patch of grass very unpretentiously, I hope the new engine will give it a second... third, fourth... life.
    1. kot711
      kot711
      -1
      28 February 2025 09: 44
      I hope

      It seems you are hoping in vain. Although hope dies last.
  9. Flight
    Flight
    +3
    28 February 2025 05: 31
    Poor Antonov, who would have thought that his plane would be so magnificent that even in the age of cybernetics, in his homeland, they would not be able to put anything better on the conveyor. They twist and turn his plane, and in the end, a huge Zero at the exit. Although, if you multiply a billion by zero, then no money, no plane...
  10. Mongolor
    Mongolor
    0
    28 February 2025 11: 30
    that is, we are reviving the An 3.. and why did they drag it out like that?! I saw stickers with it back in the USSR and in general, in the military-industrial complex news they wrote about Annushka with a turboprop engine, composite wing and long range.... what kind of... newspaper closed?!
  11. prior
    prior
    0
    28 February 2025 13: 13
    If you have "the wrong system system", you won't even be able to release Kukuruznik!
  12. Mongolor
    Mongolor
    0
    1 March 2025 05: 11
    By the end of the 25th it was high time and why did they pull it like that instead of the 20th or 14th or 10th into series production. As someone from the developers of the Ana modernization project read, they argued about shares and percentages and commissions, so maybe they could send them to a sharashka and whoever brings the product to mind will be given honor and a bonus, and the rest/them to a penal battalion and to Kolyma
  13. savage3000
    savage3000
    0
    7 March 2025 22: 23
    It was the year 2025....fuck!
  14. Sedoy
    Sedoy
    0
    15 March 2025 19: 43
    "We wasted all the polymers"
  15. Zheleznyak
    Zheleznyak
    0
    19 March 2025 09: 20
    enemies are especially active in the comments on the resource...
    So people, read the news and remember: there is a war going on, including an information-psychological one....
    any manifestation of a declining mood or criticism of the government in such conditions is a crime...
    in short: filter your speech, don't work for the enemy...