The Russian Defense Ministry issued a United Aircraft Corporation (OAK) contract and technical requirements for completion of military transport aircraft An-72 for the purpose of their further use for operations in Arctic, break the news.
AN-72 engines are placed over the wings, that allows the aircraft to take off and land on the ice even with a cargo of several tons. The main objective of modernization - increase in take-off weight with 32 to 34,8 tonnes. This will allow to take on board a large payload.
Revision will be two aircraft from the Air and Marine 4 - from the VCS.
The newspaper recalls, that the copyright of the An-72 belong to Ukraine (CB "Antonov"), but RF Design supervision of machines carries myasishchev. In addition to this organization to work on the modernization of the experts involved in TsAGI.
For more information in the KLA refused to give.
According to the experts, Lightweight Transport Workers combines high flight and landing characteristics. Due to the high permeability chassis and a relatively short run-up (less 1 km) aircraft in the civil version is actively used in the Far North. The machine is used, including landings on ice floe. In this case, the aircraft can not boast of carrying capacity, which is limited by the need installation ramp, heavy chassis, as well as a number of systems hardware duplication (because of the high reliability requirements).
