The first engines for Tu-160 will be made this year in Samara

At the Samara motor enterprise them. Kuznetsova this year will manufacture the first 5 NK-32 engines for Tu-160 bombers, reports Look with reference to the Deputy Minister of Defense Yuri Borisov.

“At the plant’s stand, qualification tests of the first engine of the new series will soon begin, and according to the plans of this year, the Samara Kuznetsov Plant should make one qualifying and four serial engines,” said the deputy minister.

“The Ministry of Defense is closely watching the progress of this work,” he stressed. “If we talk about the results of last year, then a fairly good pace has been gained.”

In Samara, production is currently under preparation for serial production of the NK-32, “which has the best characteristics,” said Borisov.

“We looked at the readiness of enterprises for mass production,” he added.

According to the deputy minister, after the resumption of production, Tu-160 bombers will surpass their predecessors in all characteristics.

“This is a fundamentally new aircraft, which differs in almost all parameters from the Tu-160, which is in operation today,” said Borisov.

Comments

[The black]

God grant !!. Great news.

[cniza]

Quote: Black

God grant !!. Great news.

Are we really recovering, I can’t believe it directly ... this is loading, jobs, and how many related industries will earn.

[NIKNN]

NK-32, which was created as a development of the NK-144, NK-144A engines. NK-144-22, NK-22 and NK-25. The turbofan engine NK-32 with the same take-off afterburner thrust of 25000 kgf and afterburner thrust of 13000 kgf should have had a specific fuel consumption at a subsonic mode of 0,72-0,73 kg / kgfh and supersonic - 1,7 kg / kgfh, and in it the design was planned to use many of the main components identical to the NK-25

I was hoping for a new generation of engines for such a global modernization, because in essence TU160 today is some kind of alternative to PAK YES for the near future, it would be necessary to approach the modernization more seriously ...

[Jurkovs]

I was hoping for a new generation of engines for such a global upgrade

It is necessary to be glad that "Kuznetsov" rose from the ashes. This means there will be new engines.

[djqnbdjqnb]

Dear NIKNN, you have given fuel consumption characteristics for new engines, but what are they for old ones?

[Blondy]

Quote: NIKNN

Something more serious, it would be necessary to approach modernization ...

Quote: NEXUS

Aircraft is being built around the engine.

Well, in a more serious way - they said that they would upgrade, and as NEXUS said, an airplane is being built around the engine, and the airplane is a little secret - this information may be enough already, especially with new nachikas (construction materials, all kinds of mechanics-electronics) the airplane will surely be on a few tons easier. So even with an old engine, the performance characteristics should grow up. Based on this and having an idea of ​​the old swans, the lack of information on the new performance characteristics of sitting / lying on the couch can be experienced quite painlessly.

[Hyppopotut]

Well, and after all the blonde !!! Sorry for the five pluses I can not put !!!

[tilovaykrisa]

Yes, there everything is normal on engines already on the pack, so they will put it on the T160 if they test the current, the avionics on the T160 will change the weapons nomenclature and this is enough to squeeze out of this glider !. For the T160, the engines are more likely not so much doing and striving to make new ones, they are more likely to want to build on their technological base for the pack, but right now they just want to keep the power of the specialists and be able to change them as they develop their resources on already flying machines.

[evge-malyshev]

Quote: NIKNN

I was hoping for a new generation of engines for such a global upgrade

Judging by your chronology of creating the NK-32, you should also imagine that the cycle of creating a new engine (in time) is commensurate with the cycle of creating a new aircraft (complex). Restored production ... Already good. We won’t be left without engines.

[sinoptic]

Perhaps this is a "seed". They give the plant to earn money + put itself in order before future serious work. It is necessary for the plant to shake itself up, to put itself in order.

[NEXUS]

Quote: cniza

Really restore, I can’t believe it directly ...

Aircraft is being built around the engine. There is an engine, there will be an airplane. The Swan production program is in full swing. Avionics are developing a new one, you see, and the production of the aircraft themselves will be adjusted.

[Baikonur]

Keep it up!

PS: The photo is excellent - TU 160 named. A. Tupolev over the Kremlin star!

[ohtsistem]

Ah handsome, "White Swan" over the ruby ​​star!

[yuriy55]

News is always encouraging, in which they report on the development of high technologies and confident removal from production with the help of primitive tools. Let it be!

[bulvas]

Remarkably this is restoring serious production.

It is important that there is always money in the budget, so that again everything does not stop as in the recent past, and for this, we must learn to work for the civilian market

[panfil]

I could be wrong, but this plane was ahead of time in its characteristics. He is not only beautiful, for his time he has outstanding engineering solutions - variable sweep of the wing, one of the best characteristics in combat capabilities. Therefore, modernization will not spoil it. God grant the white swans of the clear sky.

[NEXUS]

Quote: panfil

I could be wrong, but this plane was ahead of time in its characteristics. He’s not only beautiful, for his time he has outstanding engineering solutions - a variable wing sweep,

Outstanding engineering solutions were on the T-4 (Sotk). In percentage terms on the new aircraft, about 20-25% innovative ... so on the "hundred" this percentage was close to 90%. And his performance characteristics were better, which does not Swan is a mediocre bomber.
Tu-160 is a wonderful and most importantly the best car in its class for almost 40 years.

[aleks 62 next]

... so on the "hundred" this percentage was close to 90%. And his performance characteristics were better ...

..... There is an opinion that if "weaving" was produced and was in service, then it would still not lose its relevance (like the MIG-25 (31)) ..... The plane was unique ... .Thanks Tupolev ... I tried to wrinkle a competitor ...

[dauria]

. And his performance characteristics were better, which does not make Lebed a mediocre "bomber".

Why compare machines for different purposes? The T-4 was created for a very specific task - a supersonic attack and a hypersonic missile strike at the AUG. In principle, he could not be a "strategist". The range and size are not the same.

[NEXUS]

Quote: dauria

Why compare machines for different purposes? The T-4 was created for a very specific task - a supersonic attack and a hypersonic missile strike at the AUG. In principle, he could not be a "strategist". The range and size are not the same.

You should study this question in more detail ... there were three modifications of the T-4, and one of them was called the T-4S. I meant it exactly.

[dauria]

You should study this issue in more detail.

What is there to study? Unrealized projects t-4m and t-4ms? So these machines are already completely different, and remained only on paper. What to talk about? "Weaving" is "weaving". It is in a single copy. With a range of 6 thousand km, what kind of strategist is this? It is a pity that they closed it, they thought that with the increased air defense of the AUG, it had no chances. But no other real methods have been invented.

[NEXUS]

Quote: dauria

It is a pity that they closed it, it was considered that with the increased air defense of the AUG, she had no chance.

Stupidity. T-4 won the tender. It's just that Tupolev did not want the Tupolev factories to repurpose and reorient to Sukhoi's car, influencing the result of the tender with their authority. Therefore, Tupolev created, one might say, a successful, but "hastily" car ... well, that it turned out to be very successful.
But the T-4MS in terms of performance characteristics is better than Lebed. And breaking through the T-4 adversary’s missile defense at a speed of 3 mach is easier, you must agree. For this, in general, these machines were designed at that time.

[Dewa1s]

That is why Tupolev created a successful, but "hastily" car

Tupolev created?
Meet the M-20, with which Myasishchev Design Bureau entered the competition.

And you said everything correctly about Tupolev's authority - this "genius" of design thought simply crushed him with his authority, as a result of which he was given all the developments on this machine.

This was justified ... by the paucity of V.M. Myasishchev's Design Bureau, recreated in the second half of the 1960s, and by the lack of the necessary scientific, technical and industrial base. Tupolev destroyed Myasishchev for the second time.

“No better, do the same” - Stalin knew about the abilities of this designer ...

[mvg]

Again patriotism :-) Well, what is it better than B-1B? Shtatnik knows what Tu-160 does not. And, with less weight, carries the same combat load. And avionics is traditionally better. And they went through modernization. And the nomenclature of weapons is more diverse. Yes, and more of them much .. about 5 times ..

[NEXUS]

Quote: mvg

Well, what is it better than B-1B?

How many Lancer can take on board missiles and bombs? What is the maximum speed of it and the ceiling?

Quote: mvg

And avionics is traditionally better.

With what a snap?

Quote: mvg

Yes, and more of them much .. about 5 times ..

These bombers will not be able to break through the air defense. And in the arsenal, the most long-range missile hits 2500 km (if sclerosis doesn’t fail me) against 5500 km of our X-101/102.

[Alexey RA]

Quote: NEXUS

Outstanding engineering solutions were on the T-4 (Sotka). In percentage terms, the new aircraft was about 20-25% innovative ... so on the “hundred” this percentage was close to 90%.

Novelty is a double-edged sword. More in the car unique and none analogs - the more difficult it is to put into a series and the more difficult it is to master it in parts. And so everywhere - remember "Hustler", the unhappy "Valkyrie" or "Blackbird".

[NEXUS]

Quote: Alexey RA

"Valkyrie" or "Blackbird".

Blackburn and Valkyrie "zeroed" the MIG-25/31, it has nothing to do with production difficulties.

[Alexey RA]

Quote: NEXUS

Blackburn and Valkyrie "zeroed" the MIG-25/31, it has nothing to do with production difficulties.

The Valkyrie was shut down 3 years before the start of production of the MiG-25. And 10 years before the MiG-25 fell into the hands of the Yankees.

[Falcon]

Quote: NEXUS

Outstanding engineering solutions were on the T-4 (Sotka).

Quote: aleks 62 next

Thanks Tupolev ... I tried to wrinkle a competitor ....

Contrary to popular belief, I’ll try to express my own.

Weaving just did not take its place. Moreover, he could not become an alternative to the Tu-160.

Weaving in size and tasks was an alternative to the Tu-22. This is an aircraft to combat aircraft carriers. But with a lot of problems:
1, he was not ready. To declare that a hundred was ready - it’s the same as saying F-35 was ready 10 years ago.
2nd He was supposed to carry anti-ship missiles. Moreover, "hypersonic" - flying at great heights. This was immediately questioned. The cost effectiveness of such a missile is highly controversial.
3 The combat load and range are comparable precisely with the Tu-22m3 but not with the Tu-160.
4-e Titanium case and other innovations raised its value to heaven. Something would remind a story with B-2 now.
5-e In Tu-160 used the achievements of Tu-144 and this is a huge reserve!

[tol100v]

Quote: ohtsistem

Ah handsome, "White Swan" over the ruby ​​star!

It would look no less beautiful over the ruins of a well-known pentagonal building!

[Denis Obukhov]

Somewhere, a message already slipped that development and PD-35 for promising PAK TA were in full swing. The pace of recovery and development of our aviation over the past year is more than impressive

[Executer]

Why is it so "excellent"? When they build it, then it will be great!
And then everyone used to shout: "the current generation of Soviet people ...."
And where is this generation?

[Alexey-74]

And in parallel we are waiting for PAK YES, I wonder what it will be

[Vadim237]

"Flying wing" similar to the American B2, only two and a half times larger.

[NEXUS]

Quote: Alexey-74

And in parallel we are waiting for PAK YES, I wonder what it will be

Most likely similar to the T-54S

[Neko75]

Hurry up and more!

[Thunderbolt]

Yes, Borisov is here. And I think that is important. He also said about the updated Tu-160 --- that the release of these new machines will begin no later than 2023.

[slavik_gross]

What good news !!! So is this a modernized engine?

[Jurkovs]

So is this a modernized engine?

No. The plant was dead. They started with the overhaul of NK-32, now they are restoring the production of these engines. You can’t create new engines without these steps.

[Aleksandr1959]

And what was the plant during the Soviet era !!! As a lieutenant, in 1983 he retrained there on the NK-25.

[TVM - 75]

The plant can and wants to work, like many other manufactures! It's all about organization!

[sever.56]

While the development of PAKDA is underway, the production of Tu-160 with new engines and improved characteristics, fundamentally different from its predecessor, is a vital necessity for ensuring the country's defense capability.

[g1v2]

Judging by the info that is on the network, the pack and tu160m will not intersect. PAK YES will be subsonic and will replace tu95ms, and tu160m will be produced simultaneously with it. And by the way, I have not yet seen information about the development of a replacement for the Tu22m3, which is quite possible that its functions will be assigned to other types of aircraft in the future.

[rotmistr60]

Tu-160 bombers in all respects will far surpass their predecessors.

And this is the main thing.

[NEXUS]

Apparently they want to replace the old engines on the Swans with new ones in order to extend the resource. Well, and "get a handle" on the production of engines of this class, for the future production of new TU-160. It's a good thing.
And there you look and completely new engines will arrive in time, more economical and efficient. (So to speak, engines of the second stage).

[Yuri Y.]

Quote: NEXUS

Well, "get your hand" in the production of engines of this class

Wow, exactly. After the collapse, you need to start somewhere. And then there was nothing, and since you are PAK YES, it does not happen.

[denni]

Yes, the new dviglo will not hinder the swans. I think the characteristics will be better than the old ones

[Sergey-72]

... production of these new machines will begin no later than 2023.

Serial in 2023, and the first is expected in 2021 something like this.
And on the engines as well, in 2017 it is planned to equip them with the first modernized Tu-160. So we will hope and believe.

[dFG]

Now this is really a breakthrough, 4 SERIAL engines ..... why not now swing the engine for the AN-124 ??

[Coconut Tima]

The industry has been given the task of equipping in 2019 the An-124 Ruslan heavy military transport aircraft with domestic engines instead of the Ukrainian D-18T. This was told to Interfax by the Deputy General Designer of OJSC Kuznetsov Anton Shatsky.
He explained that the NK-32 series 2 engine, which was created for the strategic missile carrier Tu-160, was considered as the basic model for design.

[ikrut]

So the live engine will work. And then a couple of years ago the liberals sang that the NK-32 died forever.
So - slowly come to life. And this cannot but rejoice.

[barclay]

A very necessary thing for defense and for the development of the military-industrial complex! There will be engines - there will be a plane.

[atamankko]

Here is our answer to the leader of the "exceptional" who tore our economy to shreds.

[V.ic]

The first thing bombers. Each bomber on the route is a headache for our sworn partners. The fact that they can work effectively on targets behind enemy lines was clearly shown by the operation in Syria. Four engines = kit for one Tu-160. So we can lift it by plane per year (one at a time).

[Alexander 3]

Here is the engineering idea of ​​the USSR. Up to now it is possible to modernize and improve. There would be no mediocre decisions no matter what the country would be.

[kapitan92]

So our "white swans" will fly and fly. "... The total designated motor life of the NK-32 is three thousand hours, the overhaul period is one thousand hours. The maximum take-off thrust is 25 thousand kilograms, the nominal thrust is 4200. Engine weight is 3500 kilograms.
Read more: http://vpk-news.ru/news/1631
They did not abandon unification: instead of NK 25 (TU 22M3), put NK 32 on them. ....."Tu-22M4 2 x NK-32 1 copy of Tu-22M3 converted to install engines, but NK-32 engines never were installed on the aircraft "...
The idea is interesting and promising.

[Hariton laptev]

Happy! At least we will begin to prepare young cadres! Raise your young designers and engineers, enough to feed the Westerners with our brains.

[Vova Vasilievich]

Improving imperceptibly, then surprise the enemy.
He will receive the tops of our old gun.
Which will far surpass their novye since it will trample on us.

[fzr1000]

I just can’t believe it, well, we are waiting for the first copies.

[Dmitry Potapov]

As in the song "Lube" "And yet, I am grateful to fate for the Fatherland that still lives"

[Salavatsky Ministry of Emergency Situations]

Only five engines? Or five sets of engines?
There are four of them on one plane. That is, if five engines are meant, and not sets, it turns out that they will manufacture the engines on an 1,25 aircraft in a year.
Something is not very fast ...

[chelovektapok]

No need to be like b / u-gabony. In the news "will be made" - it looks like a race. They will have absolutely everything "WILL" (c). It is better to report when the "white swans" fly, but the engines were made to them in Samara! This will be CLASS!

[From Samara]

Though the plant began to come to life in Samara!

[vic58]

Hooray! Let's rejoice at the Ukrainian "genius" ... only he, hating, can raise the production of the "aggressor"

[VIT101]

Continued production of the Tu-160 suggests that PAK DA will have to wait. And, apparently, for a long time. The question rests on finances. The combat effectiveness of a military aircraft is assessed by its ability to perform a combat mission, and not by the beauty of its contours. The Tu-160 can have problems with this. On modern locators, it will glow like a Christmas tree. It will be problematic to fly to the launch zone of the Kyrgyz Republic when working on overseas targets. Here we would need our analogue of B-2.

[NEXUS]

Quote: VIT101

On modern locators, it will glow like a Christmas tree.

And where did you get the idea that the TU-160 will generally be included in the adversary’s air defense coverage area? Have you heard of such missiles as X-101/102 and X-555?

[VIT101]

Quote: NEXUS

And where did you get the idea that the TU-160 will generally be included in the adversary’s air defense coverage area? Have you heard of such missiles as X-101/102 and X-555?

Heard. Do you think that the overseas adversary only watches our carriers from his territory?

[NEXUS]

Quote: VIT101

Heard. Do you think that the overseas adversary only watches our carriers from his territory?

As well as we are behind their carriers.

[Vladimir K]

An engine is needed that would allow a non-afterburning supersonic speed. At the same time, the time for approaching the launch site of the CD will be significantly reduced, which is extremely important in a combat situation. In addition, it would be nice to install on board, due to the high EPR, a "president-s" type protection system, modernized to work against all types of missiles.

[nomad]

Modern turbojet engines will not be able to provide afterburning supersonic speed. Technology has not grown to such a level.

[Vladimir K]

"Modern turbojet engines will not be able to provide non-afterburning supersonic speed. Technology has not matured to this level."
The T-50, like the Raptor, has a supersonic (1,8M) cruising speed. In your opinion, cruising speed is realized with afterburner?

[triglav]

If they said that a new aircraft with new engines will be better than the previous ones, then it will be so.

[Koshak]

Kuznetsov Nikolai Dmitrievich - Biography

Nikolay Dmitrievich Kuznetsov (June 10 (23), 1911, Aktyubinsk, Russian Empire - July 31, 1995, Moscow, Russian Federation) - Soviet general designer of aircraft and rocket engines.

Full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and RAS, twice Hero of Socialist Labor (1957, 1981). In 1982 he received the title of honorary citizen of the city of Kuibyshev.

He was born on June 23, 1911 in Aktyubinsk, in the family of Dmitry Matveevich Kuznetsov, by profession a boiler worker, and Maria Mikhailovna Kuznetsova, a housewife.

He studied at the school of peasant youth. In 1926 he began working as a locksmith. In 1930 he graduated from high school and entered the Moscow Aviation College, where he studied at the evening department, and in the afternoon worked as a fitter. In 1933 he entered the air-technical faculty of the engine-building branch of the VVIA named after N. E. Zhukovsky, who graduated with honors on November 16, 1938. The theme of his diploma project was “A four-stroke engine, carburetor, 28-cylinder with a 4-row star, air-cooled, power 1500 h.p. at 3400 rpm at an altitude of 6000 m with a two-speed centrifugal driven supercharger. ”

In April 1939 he joined the CPSU (b) in the party organization of the academy, and was soon elected party organizer of the department. April 4, 1941 successfully defended his thesis on the structural strength of aircraft engines. In the period from July to September 1942, as an internship, he was at the front as a senior engineer of the 239th Fighter Division of the 6th Air Army. In October 1942, he met with Georgy Malenkov, who praised Kuznetsov’s abilities and sent him soon as deputy chief designer to the Ufa Aviation Plant. Here he worked from 1943 to 1949, first under the leadership of V. Ya. Klimov, then, from July 1, 1946, as chief designer. In 1949 he was transferred to Kuibyshev, where he heads the State Union Experimental Plant No. 2 for the development and production of experimental jet engines, now named after him - the Samara Scientific and Technical Complex named after N. D. Kuznetsov.

ND Kuznetsov died on July 31, 1995, was buried at the Kuntsevsky cemetery in Moscow.

[V.ic]

Quote: Koshak

Deputy Chief Designer at Ufa Aviation Plant.

Rybinsk Plant No. 26, evacuated to Bashkiria, was deployed in December 1941 on a site north of the then Ufa closer to the city of Blagoveshchensk.

[Crown]

About such a task is assigned to them.

[Dewa1s]

They are entrusted with the task of preventing the like.
For in the event of war, the Kremlin will look no better.

[prorab_ak]

Quote: NEXUS

Quote: mvg

Well, what is it better than B-1B?

How many Lancer can take on board missiles and bombs? What is the maximum speed of it and the ceiling?

Quote: mvg

And avionics is traditionally better.

With what a snap?

Quote: mvg

Yes, and more of them much .. about 5 times ..

These bombers will not be able to break through the air defense. And in the arsenal, the most long-range missile hits 2500 km (if sclerosis doesn’t fail me) against 5500 km of our X-101/102.

Well, ours too .... only if the air defense of the banana republic.
And ours also does not fly at the declared characteristics ... no one at the maximum heights and speeds of the database bears
They already shot AGM-129 flew horseradish knows when at 3500km, so they have the same missiles

[hartlend]

As far as I know, NK-32s are manufactured and are available on the market, including as drives for gas pumping units. What is the article about? Did the TU-160 fly without engines before?

[Cook]

Samara OJSC “Kuznetsov”, a member of the Union of Russian Engineering Engineers, one of the largest public organizations in the country, may in the future receive another multi-billion dollar order from the Ministry of Defense. We are talking about the NK-32 engines for the Tu-160 strategic bomber. They stopped releasing in the early 90's. Until recently, the “White Swans” actually flew due to the backlog of the Soviet era. But it is impossible to extend the life of power plants indefinitely. About three years ago, the company was given the task of first starting repairing existing engines and then restoring their production. The first item was dealt with in a few months; in 2013-14, they began to implement the second.

An article about this.

[Tektor]

This is just a song ...
Like a balm for the soul ...

[pvv113]

At the Samara propulsion plant them. Kuznetsov this year will produce the first 5 NK-32 engines for Tu-160 bombers

In the 80s, the plant produced NK-32 for Tu-160 and NK-25 for Tu-22M3. We were retraining there as young lieutenants. The scope of production was impressive !!! I am glad that the plant is reviving the production of engines for long-range aviation.