• Thumbnail for Kuznetsov NK-25
    The Kuznetsov NK-25 is a turbofan aircraft engine made by the Soviet Kuznetsov Design Bureau and used in the Tupolev Tu-22M strategic bomber. One of the...
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    The Kuznetsov NK-32 is an afterburning three-spool low bypass turbofan jet engine which powers the Tupolev Tu-160 supersonic bomber, and was fitted to...
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  • Thumbnail for Kuznetsov NK-93
    The Kuznetsov NK-93 was a civilian aircraft engine, a hybrid between a turbofan and a turboprop known as a propfan. The engine was also unique in having...
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  • The Kuznetsov NK-22 is an afterburning turbofan engine, designed by the Kuznetsov Design Bureau. In April 1967, the Kuznetsov Design Bureau accepted an...
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    The NK-33 and NK-43 are rocket engines designed and built in the late 1960s and early 1970s by the Kuznetsov Design Bureau. The NK designation is derived...
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    NK-25 afterburning turbofan. Developed from the NK-22; powers the Tupolev Tu-22M3. Kuznetsov NK-26 turboprop. Intended for ekranoplans. Kuznetsov NK-32...
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  • This was named JSC Kuznetsov, after the design bureau. The Kuznetzov Bureau first became notable for producing the monstrous Kuznetsov NK-12 turboprop engine...
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  • The NK-15 (GRAU index 11D51) was a rocket engine designed and built in the late 1960s by the Kuznetsov Design Bureau. The NK designation was derived from...
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  • Thumbnail for Tupolev Tu-22M
    664 lb) Fuel capacity: 54,000 kg (119,050 lb) internal Powerplant: 2 × Kuznetsov NK-25 Afterburning turbofan engines, 247.9 kN (55,700 lbf) with afterburner...
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    turbofan also has a three-spool configuration, as do the military Kuznetsov NK-25 and NK-321. As bypass ratio increases, the fan blade tip speed increases...
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  • Osoaviakhim following World War II, he played a major role in designing the Kuznetsov NK-12, the most powerful turboprop engine ever built. Brandner was born...
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    noted Kuznetsov Type 022 Kuznetsov NK-2 Kuznetsov NK-4 Kuznetsov NK-6 Kuznetsov NK-8 Kuznetsov NK-12 Kuznetsov NK-22 Kuznetsov NK-25 Kuznetsov NK-32 Kuznetsov...
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    passenger airliner derivative was called the Tu-114. The aircraft has four Kuznetsov NK-12 engines with contra-rotating propellers. It is the only propeller-powered...
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    Nikolai Kuznetsov began work on the closed cycle engine NK-9 for Korolev's orbital ICBM, GR-1. Kuznetsov later evolved that design into the NK-15 and NK-33...
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    nicknamed the "Caspian Sea Monster". The Lun was powered with eight Kuznetsov NK-87 turbofans, mounted on forward canards, each producing 127.4 kN (28...
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    Powerplant: 1 × Kuznetsov NK-12MK turboprop engine, 11,033 kW (14,795 shp) mounted at the fin / tailplane junction Powerplant: 2 × Kuznetsov NK-8-4K turbofan...
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    most powerful turboprop in service using a single propeller; only the Kuznetsov NK-12 from Russia and Progress D-27 from Ukraine, using contra-rotating...
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    generating 11,000 kgf at takeoff and was developed in 1971 to replace the Kuznetsov NK-8-4 engine on the Il-62 long-haul airliner, which had some difficulties...
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    contra-rotating propellers. In the 1950s, the Soviet Union's Kuznetsov Design Bureau developed the NK-12 turboprop. It drives an eight-blade contra-rotating...
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    the Ilyushin Il-18 and the Antonov An-10 and the engine chosen was the Kuznetsov NK-4 rather than the Ivchenko AI-20. The Il-18 design had started in 1954...
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    choice of engines was between the Kuznetsov NK-4 and the Ivchenko AI-20, and despite superior performance the Kuznetsov NK-4 was eliminated and the Ivchenko...
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    disintegrated, but Kuznetsov argued that the NK-15 engines were entirely blameless and Mishin, who had defended the use of Kuznetsov's engines two years...
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    971 mi), based on the Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bomber, powered by four Kuznetsov NK-12 engines driving contra-rotating propellers. The Tu-114 used the basic...
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    Union Kuznetsov, also referred as Dzerzhinsky. The name was later changed to Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya (October Revolution), and then just Kuznetsov; but...
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    the Kuznetsov NK-144A turbofan to address lack of take-off thrust and surge margin. SFC at M2.0 was 1.81 kg/kgp hr. A further improvement, the NK-144V...
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    these buoys provided 50% greater coverage. The Kuznetsov NK-12MV were replaced by the more-powerful NK-12MP engines, and for the first time, the Tu-142...
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  • Thumbnail for Sukhoi Su-25
    the Su-25SM3 has been upgraded with the new PrNK-25SM-1 Bars targeting-and-navigation system and the KSS-25 communication system with Banker-8-TM-1 antenna...
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  • as its own turboprop powerplants, the TV-12 prototype series for the Kuznetsov NK-12 turboprops that power the Tu-95 to this day, were already generating...
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    2019[needs update] or beyond. Although Kuznetsov designed an NK-32M engine with improved reliability over the NK-32 engines, its successor company has...
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  • Thumbnail for Ivchenko AI-20
    Antonov An-10, to be powered by four turboprops, in competition with the Kuznetsov NK-4 engines. Both engines were tested on the preproduction batch of 20...
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