United Engine Corporation (UEC) has multiplied the production of VK-2500 engines and its modifications. This is reported by TASS with reference to Deputy Director General of UEC Yuri Shmotin.
During the conference “Fuel Combustion: Theory, Experiment, Applications” Yuri Shmotin told about a significant increase in the scale of production of engines of this type in 2024, which is associated with the growing demand for aircraft engines for helicopters Ka-52, Mi-28, Mi-8AMTSh, as well as the line of Mi-17/171 and all modifications of these machines.
In addition, Yuri Shmotin noted the rise in the cost of domestic production of components by 20% over four years. He attributed this to the increase in billets and other materials. “Over the last four years, the cost of components from suppliers in machine building has increased four times, the cost of supplying charge, billets, disks, shafts has increased up to two times. Our domestic production has become 20% more expensive for us,” he said.
According to him, 2025 and 2026 will be a period of further increase in production capacity. Deputy General Director of UDC drew attention to the need to increase the production of serial equipment, especially engines for civil aircraft.
“Today we have planned and are already producing up to 50% of the volume that [in accordance with the comprehensive program for the development of the aviation industry until 2030] UDC should do,” Yuri Shmotin explained.
The VK-2500 engine is a modification of the TV3-117VMA turboshaft engine, which was created for the Ka-50 attack helicopter and produced in Zaporozhye, Ukraine. It was also installed on Ka-27, Ka-29, Ka-31, Mi-24, Mi-28A/N, Ka-32 helicopters. The VK-2500 is designed and produced at UEC-Klimov in St. Petersburg.
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