This is from Jane’s Missile & Rocket’:
Russia’s ramjet design facility closes
Plamja-M, the Russian design bureau specialising in ramjet powerplants, has been closed, writes Yevgeniy Letunovsky. A small portion of its staff now works in the engine department of the Science and Production Association Machine-Building (NPO Mashinostroyeniya), completing work on the 3D55 powerplant of the Russian/Indian PJ-10 BrahMos anti-ship missile. The closure of the bureau means that Russia no longer has an organisation able to develop liquid-fuelled ramjets.
What will be the consequences on R 77?
I don’t have a subsritpition at Jane’s and I didn’t read the rest of article.May be ther is someone on the forum that can read the whole story
By: Arabella-Cox - 26th January 2005 at 08:24
The factory will make them. Its the design bureau that are closed, so no new developments, but that doesn’t stop you building the existing stuff.
Correction, the company that specialises in Liquid fuelled ramjets has closed, not all companies with liquid fuelled ramjet development capability has closed.
In other words liquid fuelled ramjet development has not ended in Russia… it was obviously not earning enough to survive on its own. (no real surprise really as design bureaus in Russia don’t generally have that much earning power). In a way this was a bit like the MiG design bureau joining forces with manufacturing plants and other enterprises to become MIG. It still designs but is now part of an org that has money generation power to support its R&D capability.
By: aerospacetech - 25th January 2005 at 08:03
The factory will make them. Its the design bureau that are closed, so no new developments, but that doesn’t stop you building the existing stuff.
By: dionis - 25th January 2005 at 07:50
uhh.. so who is going to make engines for the Kh-31/Moskit now?
By: heeroyui - 22nd January 2005 at 06:56
Hello
Speed Mach 5 and a range of heights of defeat, 20-30000 m
By: Showtime 100 - 22nd January 2005 at 05:12
How fast is this ramjet R-77? 6 Mach?
By: Arabella-Cox - 22nd January 2005 at 02:54
Closure of bureaus happened all the time during Soviet times… most often because the nominal head of that bureau lost favour with the leadership, though now it would be for cost reasons I would assume. Needless to say that the MIG design bureau no longer exists as an independant organisation and is now part of the MIG industrial group.
The integration of some of the personel directly into another organisation suggests reducing management costs by making an external company part of or a department of an existing larger company. I doubt it will mean the end of liquid fuelled ramjet development in Russia.
(needless to say that scramjet technology is very important to the Russians and that will almost certainly be liquid fuelled with cryogenic liquids… does anyone know if NPO works with space rocket engines?)
By: Meteorit - 21st January 2005 at 21:22
The closure of the bureau means that Russia no longer has an organisation able to develop liquid-fuelled ramjets.
Liquid-fuelled ramjets. However, the R-77PD uses a solid-propellant ramjet, so as SOC said it shouldn’t be affected.
By: heeroyui - 21st January 2005 at 18:24
Hello
Ramjet R-77, R-77 R-77M-PD before denominated RVV-AE-PD.
R-77M-PD in 1993 Moscow Air Show
By: SOC - 21st January 2005 at 13:45
I’ve read it, there is no mention of the R-77. My assumption would be that the bureau wasn’t involved with that project. Their products are listed as the engines for the Moskit, Krug, Onyx, Meteorit, and Kh-31.
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January 21, 2005 at 12:56 pm