The promising Yak-152 training aircraft can receive a Russian engine not as a replacement for the German RED A03T V12, but as its analogue [...], Mikhail Gordin, general director of the Central Institute of Aviation Engine Engineering named after Pyotr Baranov, explained to RIA Novosti.
"Now we are also discussing the possibility of designing a new 500-horsepower diesel engine not to replace the RED engine, but as its analogue for the Yak-152 aircraft. The fact is that it is difficult to create a replacement, the main difficulty lies in the successful layout and use of components that are not produced in Russia," the head said.
According to him, the question of the need to put on the Yak-152 belongs to the competence of the developer and the customer. "In any case, this is the subject of a separate experimental design development," the general director noted.
In June 2016, Sergey Yamanov, one of the heads of the Irkutsk Aircraft Factory of the Irkut Corporation, said that the Russian Defense Ministry had ordered 150 Yak-152 light training aircraft intended for primary training of future military pilots.
Currently, three experimental Yak-152 aircraft have been produced.
The RED A03 engine was developed in Germany under the leadership of Vladimir Raikhlin, a native of Russia, at the expense of the Russian holding company Finam.
Ivan Potapov