The Tumansky R-29 is a Soviet turbojet aircraft engine that was developed in the early 1970s.[1] It is generally described as being in the "third generation" of Soviet gas turbine engines which are characterized by high thrust-to-weight ratios and the use of turbine air cooling.[2]
R-29 | |
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Tumansky R-29-300 on display at the Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim | |
Type | Turbojet |
Manufacturer | Tumansky, UMPO, MMP Chernyshev, AMNTK Sojuz |
First run | 1972 |
Major applications | MiG-23 |
Developed from | Tumansky R-27 |
Developed into | Tumansky R-35 |
Original variant. Used in the MiG-23MF and related variants.[3]
Simplified variant of the engine intended for the MiG-27.[3]
Advanced variant that replaced the -300 model on non-export aircraft.[3]
Variant with modified gearbox. Used in several export variants of the Sukhoi Su-17.[3]
Developed version used in late variants of the MiG-23.
Chinese reverse-engineered copy of the R-29-300.[4]
Data from [5]
Comparable engines
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