Thank you for your input José
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Turkish and Pakistani air-to-air missile technology to be exchanged:
Regardless of whether Ukraine wins or loses, or becomes a vassal of Russia, or a NATO member....
Ukrainian talent repesents a unique opporunity for Turkey to poach top-level talent.
BAE did Replica. They probably can design a stealth airframe if they want to make one.
Yeah. That is, ahem, interesting to say the least. I mean the Russians doubled the Ukrainian Al-222 engine's lifetime by just adding different coatings to it. I repeat. The Russians increased the lifetime of the Ukrainian engine. And you know how famous Russian engines are for their endurance.
Ukraine is allegedly capable of making deep maintenance to RD-33 engines. They can probably make all the parts for that engine. They had a plan to make their own engine to replace the RD-33 in their MiG-29. But nothing came out of that. I wouldn't be surprised if you could reuse a D-436 engine core to make a fighter engine if you really wanted to.
A 5th generation engine is something quite different altogether. They won't be able to do one.
Does this ever reach any step of development? Post Soviet Russia and post Soviet Ukraine were famous to create many plans and don’t deliver nothing.
Russia at some point started to deliver with a decade of delay, but at least they did
From Ukraine I have only listen plans.
Also take into consideration that in 2008 Russia and Ukraine were collaborating a lot. Ukrainian engines were still used in the Russian transport planes and so on.
Also Russia was buying still antonovs if I am not mistaken.
In 2014 Ukrainian industry lost its biggest partner and customer
The first image literately differentiates between various stages.
Dunno, turbinemachinery is expensive to develop. No customer, no money. Doesn't mean they are not technically capable of doing so.
Again, thank you for your input José.
Those are all variants of existing Soviet engines. It is as if the Russians would claim they designed four engines because there are four variants of the Klimov VK-2500. The Al-450 is also a modification of a pre-existing APU turbine so it is not a whole new design.
I think the Ukrainians only designed two actually "new" aviation engines in the post Soviet period. Al-222 and MS-500V.
Research in advanced aviation engine materials was always conducted in Russia. Not in Ukraine. That is one of the reasons why Ukraine can't make a 5th generation engine regardless of how much money you gave them.
It takes 5-10 years to design an engine and put it into actual production. But it takes twice as long to develop materials.
I think the Ukrainians only designed two actually "new" aviation engines in the post Soviet period. Al-222 and MS-500V.
Research in advanced aviation engine materials was always conducted in Russia. Not in Ukraine. That is one of the reasons why Ukraine can't make a 5th generation engine regardless of how much money you gave them.
It takes 5-10 years to design an engine and put it into actual production. But it takes twice as long to develop materials.
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