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Ilyushin eyes numerous variants of PAK VTA military airlifter.
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World Aviation Defense & Security Industry News - Ilyushin
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Ilyushin eyes numerous variants of PAK VTA military airlifter
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The Ilyushin Company, a subsidiary of the United Aircraft Corporation, is developing several variants of the advanced heavy military transport aircraft (Russian acronym: PAK VTA, Perspektivnyi Aviatsionnyi Kompleks Voyenno-Transportnoi Aviatsii), according to the Director General of the enterprise, Sergei Velmozhkin.
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 A conceptual aircraft called PAK VTA illustrated by Alexey Komarov, Customer and Technical Manager at Volga-Dnepr Group(Credit: Vimeo/Alexey Komarov) |
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"We are considering several options to equip the PAK VTA aircraft with modern jet engines. The industry has already commenced the development of the PD-23 engine under the relevant program. The PAK VTA aircraft powered by such engines will have a payload of 100 t. If a customer is willing to get a military transport aircraft with a payload of about 80 t, the plane will receive the PS-90A1 engines," Velmozhkin said.
The Russian military has yet to formulate the requirements to the Il-106 [Russia`s designation of the PAK VTA plane] military transport aircraft that is supposed to have a payload of 80-100 t. Previously, the Designer General of the Ilyushin Company, Nikolai Talikov said that the aircraft would resemble the Il-76 (NATO reporting name: Candid) military transport aircraft. The plane would be able to land at the unpaved aerodromes, he added. |
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