VKS trainer aircrafts status and needs

So they are not going to buy Yak-152s?

Or are they just testing these aircraft?

Testing of course, although I hope that UTS-800 can be chosen eventually, since China already stole the Yak-152 as theirs own in addition to the Yak-130 stolen years as the L-15.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has received the first two serial UTS-800 training aircraft

As reported by the TASS news agency on December 28, 2024, citing an official representative of the Ural Plant of Civil Aviation (UZGA, Yekaterinburg), this plant transferred the first two serial turboprop training aircraft UTS-800 to the Russian Ministry of Defense for further testing. According to information distributed on social networks, the aircraft with red tail numbers "06" and "07" were transferred. The first two serial turboprop training aircraft UTS-800 built by JSC Ural Plant of Civil Aviation (UZGA) and transferred to the Russian Ministry of Defense (with red tail numbers "06" and "07"), and the first flight prototype of the UTS-800 aircraft (with red tail number "01"), December 2024 (c) JSC Ural Plant of Civil Aviation

"These two serial UTS-800 will be connected to flight tests. In the higher educational institutions of the Ministry of Defense, both in the times of the USSR and at present, there is no aircraft of this class. The aircraft for the initial and basic training of cadets at different times were jet L-29 and L-39. The inclusion of the UTS-800 aircraft in the flight training system for pilots will significantly reduce the cost of training cadets and ensure its high efficiency," said the official representative of UZGA.

On the part of bmpd, we note that earlier UZGA built one first flight prototype of the UTS-800 aircraft with the tail number "01" (also "541"), which was first publicly demonstrated at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" in Kubinka in August 2021 and quietly made its first flight at the UZGA factory airfield in Aramil (Sverdlovsk Region) on October 28, 2023.

Let us recall that the UTS-800 aircraft is a localized version of the multi-purpose turboprop aircraft DART (Diamond Aircraft Reconnaissance Trainer) of the well-known Austrian aircraft manufacturer Diamond Aircraft Industries GmbH, which since the end of 2017 has been fully controlled by the Chinese company Wanfeng Aviation Industry Co., Ltd (the aviation division of the Chinese private group Wanfeng Auto Holding Group, specializing in the production of automotive components).

Diamond Aircraft announced the development of the DART aircraft at the Farnborough Airshow in July 2014. In its appearance and size, the DART looks like a very accurate clone of the famous Pilatus PC-7 training aircraft. The DART aircraft has a completely all-composite structure and a number of original design solutions, including a wing with an original high-speed profile (originally developed for the Diamond D-Jet small business jet, which was stopped from being developed) and is offered in various modifications with turboprop engines from various manufacturers. The first prototype of the aircraft in the DART-450 version with a turboprop engine AI-450S with a takeoff power of 500 hp, jointly developed by the Ukrainian companies State Enterprise Ivchenko-Progress and JSC Motor Sich (Zaporozhye), made its first flight in Austria on May 17, 2016.

From the very beginning, the DART aircraft was focused on promotion primarily to the defense markets of Russia and China. In China, the DART-450 version with the AI-450SR-2 engine is being developed in the form of the TA-20 aircraft , created in the interests of the PLA Air Force by the Chinese-Austrian joint venture CETC Wuhu Diamond Aircraft Manufacture Co., Ltd. in Wuhu, its formal designer is the Austrian "gasket" company Central European Aircraft Design GmbH (CEAD). The first prototype of the TA-20 was rolled outin Wuhu on November 6, 2018, however, there is no recent information about the start of its flight tests and the overall development of the program.

On May 3, 2018, Diamond Aircraft began flight tests of the first prototype of the modified DART-550 aircraft, featuring a General Electric GE H75-100 turboprop engine (a reduced-power modification of the GE H80 engine, which in turn is a modernized version of the well-known Czech Walter M601 series engine) with a maximum power of 550 kW. The

aircraft in the DART-450T version became a direct prototype for the UTS-800. Work on the creation of the UTS-800, according to the documentation received, was carried out at UZGA in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense since 2017 as a promising training aircraft (UTS) for the initial and main stages of flight training. In this capacity, the UTS-800 aircraft is to replace the old Czechoslovak-made L-39 jet trainers in the flight schools of the Russian Ministry of Defense, which the Russian Aerospace Forces are still forced to use at these stages of flight training due to the revealed failure of the concept of using complex and expensive-to-operate Yak-130 aircraft for all stages of flight training.

Theoretically, the UTS-800 competes in this purpose with the Yak-152 aircraft, which, however, is currently a clear outsider due to problems identified during testing and the lack of a suitable engine for it.

The first flying prototype of the UTS-800, like the two production aircraft now transferred to the Russian Ministry of Defense, is equipped with a General Electric GE H80-200 turboprop engine (manufactured by the GE BGA Turboprop division in the Czech Republic as a modernized version of the well-known Czech Walter M601 series engine, designated as the M601H-80 during development) with a takeoff power of 800 hp.

Full-scale serial production of the UTS-800 was planned to be carried out with a new VK-800S turboprop engine with a takeoff power of up to 900 hp and a continuous power of 810 hp, created by UZGA under the program of the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Russia since 2017 at its branch in St. Petersburg, where UEC-Klimov transferred the documentation. Production of VK-800S prototypes was carried out by UZGA-controlled Scientific and Production Center Blades. Compressors. Turbines LLC (SPC LKT) at an enterprise in the Moscow region, where it was also planned to carry out serial assembly of the engine. Bench tests of the VKS-800S began in 2018, but the engine was not brought to flight tests. It was reported that in 2019, based on the results of calculations, design analysis and bench tests of the VK-800S engine, the UZGA management decided to abandon further development of this engine based on the Klimov design, and instead, the Engine division of UZGA began designing a virtually new turboprop engine of the same power class under the initial designation EM-610, but eventually received the designation VK-800SM (the variant for the UTS-800, according to some sources, is designated as VK-800SP). It is claimed that this engine developed by UZGA differs in design from the Klimov VK-800S by approximately 99%, and that its overall characteristics and weight are smaller. It was reported that bench tests of the first VSK-800SM sample began in January 2023, but flight tests of the engine have not yet begun.

In addition to the UTS-800, UZGA plans to use VK-800SM engines on its new light aircraft LMS-901 Baikal and on L-410 aircraft of its own assembly (instead of General Electric H80-200 engines). One way or another, the ongoing uncertainty with the engine leaves all new Russian training aircraft projects in a "suspended" state. The first two serial turboprop training aircraft UTS-800 built by JSC Ural Plant of Civil Aviation (UZGA) and transferred to the Russian Ministry of Defense (with red tail numbers "06" and "07"), and the first flight prototype of the UTS-800 aircraft (with red tail number "01"), December 2024 (c) JSC Ural Plant of Civil Aviation



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Testing of course, although I hope that UTS-800 can be chosen eventually, since China already stole the Yak-152 as theirs own in addition to the Yak-130 stolen years as the L-15.

I hope not... the UTS-800 is essentially a Russian copy of an Austrian aircraft with a Czech made American motor. The Yak-152 might have been copied by the Chinese, but it is a Russian design and eventually will have a Russian engine.

The UTS-800 will eventually have a Russian engine, but so will the Yak-152...

800hp continuous power for the UTS-800 engine (explains the designation I guess) is rather powerful for a propeller basic trainer... the Yak-52 had about a 340hp engine and the Yak-152 is supposed to have a 500hp engine from that guy who sold Russia out to Germany and is now sitting in a German prison... hahaha... dickhead.

To be clear I don't have any problems with Russia adopting foreign designs, but when a Russian design intended for the same purpose is just ignored I think they are wasting their talent in their worship of foreign stuff...