Ilyushin Il-76 수송기 개량형 개발 소식

 

러시아가 기존 Ilyushin Il-76 (or IL-76) 수송기의 개량형 Il-76MD-90A (군용) 과 Il-76TD-90 (민수용) 을 각각 개발하고

있다는 AW&ST 최근 기사를 소개 합니다.

 

참조용으로 최근에 제작된 Il-76 기들 사진을 아래 소개 합니다. 출처는 각 사진 하단에 명기되어 있으므로 별도 표기는

생략 합니다.

 

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Coming Together

Prototypes of modernized Russian military airlifter nearing completion

Aviation Week & Space Technology, 05/23/2011

Author : Maxim Pyadushkin

 

 

With much attention on Russia’s efforts to revive its combat aircraft fortunes, the country also is more quietly making inroads in reviving its military transport aircraft activities.

 

Russia’s United Aircraft Corp. (UAC) is completing assembly of the first prototypes of the new Ilyushin Il-76MD-90A military transport, also known as Il-476 or Item 476. The first flight prototype and the aircraft to be used for static testing are being built at the Ulyanovsk-based Aviastar-SP facility, a UAC subsidiary.

 

The rollout of the first Il-76MD-90A is scheduled for October, and the static test aircraft is to be ready around the same time. The first flight is slated for early 2012. That will trigger a flight-test program that should allow serial production of the new transport to start in 2013-14, UAC officials indicate.

 

The new transports are included in the government rearmament program through 2020. Earlier plans called for an order of 38 aircraft, but the Russian military has not signed a purchase contract yet, UAC officials explain. Besides, the manufacturer sees some export opportunities for the improved Il-76 — the aircraft is taking part in the Indian tender for six air tankers, while China is interested in resuming the 2005 contract for 38 Il-76s.

 

According to UAC officials, the fuselage of the flight prototype has been assembled and the center wing section installed. The factory is now installing ramp and cargo doors, landing gear fairings and the fuel system. The static-test aircraft’s center wing is complete, while the center fuselage section is 80% ready.

 

The new aircraft will be a deep modernization of existing Il-76MD military transports that have been in service with the Russian air force for more than 20 years. Although primarily targeted at the military market, UAC also sees a potential commercial customer base for the civil offshoot, the Il-76TD-90, which will be available starting in 2015 once it is certified under AP-25 Russian airworthiness rules.

 

Although the technical parameters of the military freighter have not officially been revealed, in a presentation at the Ulyanovsk International Air Transport Forum at the end of April, the Ilyushin design bureau’s deputy head, Vladimir Belyakov, described the civil version as featuring reinforced wings and new engines. The Il-76TD-90 will also sport a modernized landing gear as well as new avionics. With this upgrade, the designers expect to increase the aircraft payload to around 60 metric tons, 10 more than the current standard. Range would increase 27% and fuel consumption would drop 18%.

 

The first new wing was manufactured by Aviastar-SP at the end of March. Its construction technique should yield a two-metric-ton weight reduction and a 15% improvement in airframe life, Bel­yakov says. The new wing also has an improved flap control system that should ease the crew’s workload and increase flight safety. Reinforcements in the fuselage and landing gear are boosting the maximum takeoff weight to 210 from 195 metric tons, Belyakov adds.

 

A key element of the Il-76’s transformation is the more powerful 35,000-lb.-thrust Perm PS-90A-76 turbofans to replace NPO Saturn D-30KPs.

 

Similarly, the fielding of a digital Kupol-3 avionics system with satellite navigation and a glass cockpit are central features of the new airlifter. Russia plans to move to a common cockpit across its future transport fleet, with the Il-112 and medium Russian-Indian Multirole Transport Aircraft that has yet to be developed to share the same setup. “The new avionics will allow a reduction in crew numbers on the new aircraft from the current five to three personnel, but we think that even a two-person crew will be enough,” Belyakov asserts.

 

Although much of the program’s focus is on improved performance, it also has a defense industrial aspect. The assembly of the improved Il-76 at Ulyanovsk marks a shift from where the airlifter used to be built during Soviet-era days. But Russia wanted to reclaim the final assembly location from the TAPO plant in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, which is outside UAC’s industrial span of control.

 

The Tashkent facility is completing assembly of the last three Il-76s, one stretched Il-76MF for Jordan and two Il-76TD-90VDs for cargo carrier Volga-Dnepr Airlines. It will close Jan. 1, 2012, and Aviastar-SP will thereafter produce the improved freighters and support the existing Il-76 fleet.

 

 

  요르단 International Air Cargo 사의 민수용 Il-76MF

 

 

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