Now "Made by us" in Telegram. Aviation complex for agronomists The newest specialized aircraft t 500

  • 18.05.2020

State science Center RF "ORPE "Tekhnologiya" named after A. G. Romashin" (part of the structure of the State Corporation "Rostec") for the first time presents the project "Field aviation complex Agriculture"(PAK CX). PAK CX includes a new Russian T-500 aircraft for aerial chemical work with a composite airframe, a nozzle spraying system and a ground refueling complex. According to an official representative of the center, today there are no domestic analogues of such a complex.
The implementation of the PAK CX project has begun less than a year ago, when the company "MVEN" from Tatarstan and Obninsk "Technology" signed a memorandum of cooperation. The prototype of the T-500 specialized aircraft for aerial chemical work was the MV-500 developed by the same MVEN company.
ONPP Tekhnologiya told the Show Observer that the T-500 is a single-seat, low-wing aircraft with a tractor propeller. The aircraft is made of composite materials by hot molding, so it can be operated in regions with difficult climatic conditions. According to Tekhnologiya, its wingspan is 12.4 m, length - 7.7 m, height - 2.3 m. flight hours. The cruising speed of the aircraft is 160 km/h, the maximum flight range is 1000 km. The empty plane weighs 756 kg. Its maximum takeoff weight is 1475 kg, the volume of the chemical mixture tank is 500 liters.
The aircraft is equipped with a high-speed parachute system for rescuing the pilot and the aircraft. The chassis of a special design allows the T-500 to be operated outside airfields. The aircraft nozzle spray system is designed for ultra-low volume spraying technology, which allows for economical and efficient field treatment. Also, the T-500 can process fields at low altitude, in which, due to a powerful turbulent flow, the drug also falls from below the leaves of plants. The sun can pollinate more than 100 ha/h.
The project to create a serial PAK CX is being implemented in partnership with the MVEN company, the developer of the T-500. At the production facilities of ONPP "Tekhnologiya" a composite airframe and cockpit glazing are produced.
Its creators see the main area of ​​application for the T-500 in agriculture. Also, according to experts from "Technology", such aircraft will be in demand in other areas: in monitoring environment, inspection of oil and gas pipelines, in sports aviation, etc.
The T-500 has already successfully passed flight tests. In parallel, work is underway to certify it. It is planned that an agreement with the Aviation Register of the Russian Federation on the start of work on type certification will be signed for e. Type certification is expected in 2018. In the future, ONPP Tekhnologiya, together with MVEN, plans to produce up to 60 aircraft per year. The cost of the T-500 aircraft is estimated at 12 million rubles. Together with the ground filling complex, this amount increases to 13 million rubles. Technologiya noted that Tatarstan and the Kaluga region were the first to show interest in the new aircraft. Negotiations are currently underway with consumers from Portugal and Angola. As part of the air show, ONPP "Technology" plans to sign agreements on cooperation in the field of agricultural chemical works in the Kaluga region between ONPP "Tekhnologiya" and the Kaluga Research Institute of Agriculture. And on July 23, the T-500 is to make its first flight at MAKS.

On July 23, a specialized T-500 aircraft for aerial chemical work took part in the MAKS-2017 flight program.

Participants and guests of MAKS-2017 warmly welcomed the debutant. In the sky over the territory of the International Aviation and Space Salon, the T-500 aircraft spent seven minutes, showing the audience a carbon wing from a height.

“This unique aircraft fits perfectly into the MAKS-2017 flight program, the purpose of which, as a rule, is to demonstrate new aircraft. aviation technology. Created entirely from composite materials using the latest aviation technologies, the T-500 became not only the debut of the air show, but also a new word for civil aviation, ”said the general director of ONPP Tekhnologiya named after A.I. A.G. Romashina Andrey Silkin.


T-500 is a new generation specialized aircraft for aerial chemical works. The airframe of the aircraft is completely made of composite materials, the method of hot molding is used in the production, so the aircraft can be operated in regions with a hot climate. The T-500 glazing is made of high-strength material and has a multifunctional coating that protects the pilot from harmful external factors.


The aircraft chemical spray nozzle system is designed for modern technology ultra-low volume spraying, allowing economical and efficient treatment with the latest types chemical compositions. Productivity - more than 150 hectares per hour. The aircraft can be used for environmental monitoring (especially during a fire hazard period), surveys industrial facilities large extent, impact on hydrometeorological phenomena, forest treatment from pests, oil spill response. The T-500 aircraft is produced by ONPP "Tekhnologiya" named after. A.G. Romashina together with the developer - Firm "MVEN" (Republic of Tatarstan).

For reference: the T-500 is a single-seat low-wing aircraft with a tractor propeller. The aircraft is made of composite materials by hot molding, so it can be operated in regions with difficult climatic conditions. According to Tekhnologiya, its wingspan is 12.4 m, length - 7.7 m, height - 2.3 m. flight hours. The cruising speed of the aircraft is 160 km/h, the maximum flight range is 1000 km. The empty plane weighs 756 kg. Its maximum takeoff weight is 1475 kg, the volume of the chemical mixture tank is 500 liters. The aircraft is equipped with a high-speed parachute rescue system for the pilot and aircraft. The chassis of a special design allows the T-500 to be operated outside airfields. The aircraft nozzle spray system is designed for ultra-low volume spraying technology, which allows for economical and efficient field treatment. Also, the T-500 can process fields at low altitude, in which, due to a powerful turbulent flow, the drug also falls from below the leaves of plants.

ONPP Tekhnologiya (part of the Rostec Group of Companies), together with the Kazan company MVEN, will produce 30 T-500 agricultural aircraft. The aircraft will be assembled in Kazan. About what is known about the "flying tractors" T-500 - in the material of the news agency "Tatar-inform".

New generation aircraft will be produced in Kazan

The day before, Rostec announced that ONPP Tekhnologiya (part of the Rostec Group of Companies), together with the Kazan company MVEN, will produce 30 T-500 aircraft for aerial chemical work this year. AT this moment the vessel is undergoing the final stage of certification, and by the end of the year the first series of machines is expected to be produced.

Viktor Yermolenko, director of MVEN LLC, confirmed to a Tatar-inform correspondent that the planes would be assembled in Kazan.

“We are participating in cooperation, the assembly of aircraft will take place in Kazan,” Yermolenko said.


The director of the Kazan company specified that all the details of the cooperation between the enterprises would be known after the completion of the type certification.

The functionality of the new generation aircraft is quite wide. It will be used to monitor the environment, survey industrial facilities, impact on hydrometeorological phenomena and treat forests from pests. The new aircraft differs from previous models in that it is made of composite materials, has high-strength glazing, and is also equipped with a high-speed parachute rescue system.

At the same time, the cost of the T-500 will be two times lower than the cost of foreign analogues, Rostec emphasized. Among them, for example, American aircraft for aeronautical work Air Tractor, as well as Cessna.

“The T-500 project has great potential for development: in 2018 we plan to produce 30 aircraft, and from 2019 we are ready to reach a capacity of 120 aircraft per year. We have already outlined the first sales directions: Rosleskhoz has expressed interest in buying aircraft, the possibility of buying or leasing is being discussed with the Ministry of Agriculture, and an agreement has been signed to assist in sales with Rosagroleasing,” said Sergey Abramov, Industrial Director of the Armament Cluster of Rostec State Corporation.

The state corporation also stated that Tatarstan expressed its readiness to take part in the implementation of a pilot project to create a unified system of aerial chemical works in Russia.

From the creation of parachutes for small aircraft to the modern "corncob"

A lot of firms tried to create a replacement for the "maize" in Russia, but MVEN came closest to solving this problem.

The Kazan company has been developing high-speed parachute systems (FPS) for rescuing light aircraft and crew in emergency situations for more than 27 years, and has been manufacturing specialized agricultural aircraft for more than 17 years. In both cases, MVEN succeeded quite well - both projects are unique in Russia.

MVEN was created in 1990 by aviation engineers and members of the USSR parachuting team Mikhail Nevelsky and Viktor Ermolenko (MVEN are the initials of the founders of the enterprise). Having received a patent for the first BPS (high-speed parachute system), the company managed to put the technology into production. Subsequently, BPS were delivered to the countries of the North and South America, Asia and Europe.

In 2000, MVEN made a sharp turn in its development. The management decided to diversify the business and engage in the production of light aircraft for agricultural purposes. The pilot project was named MVEN-2 Farmer.

Numerous similar projects that aviation companies tried to develop in the early 2000s could not be implemented largely due to funding problems. The design bureau did not succeed in this matter either - not a single aircraft was brought to serial production. For example, lungs aircrafts Tu-24SH and Tu-54, which KB them. A.N. Tupolev planned to replace the obsolete AN-2 (the so-called "maize") did not even survive the design stage. The light Su-38L (Design Bureau named after P.O. Sukhoi) became the only aircraft that reached the flight test stage prototype. However, the mass production of the aircraft failed to establish.


The Fund for Assistance to the Development of Small Forms of Enterprises in the Scientific and Technical Sphere became interested in the Nevelsky and Ermolenko project. In 2004, the first flight of the MVEN-2 "Farmer" aircraft took place at the Kazan-2 airfield.

The aircraft could reach speeds of up to 200 km / h and carry a payload with a total weight of up to 300 kg. "Farmer" is almost twice as expensive as its foreign counterparts ($180,000 versus $300,000). In addition, it is much more efficient than any ground equipment - in one flight, the aircraft can process an area of ​​​​up to 95 hectares. In 2015, the company received a type certificate for the MVEN-2 Farmer aircraft.

How the "Farmer" evolved to the T-500

The T-500 is a single-seat agricultural aircraft, which is an evolution of the company's previous project, the Farmer-2 aircraft. The characteristics of the new model are superior to those of the previous series. The T-500 has a more powerful engine, the maximum takeoff weight of the T-500 is 1.5 thousand kg (the previous model was 1.1 thousand kg), the payload is much larger than that of the Farmer-2. The machine is built entirely of composite materials. For the manufacture of a one-piece wing with a length of 12.4 m, MVEN designed and manufactured a special polymerization oven.

For the first time, the T-500 was lifted into the air in 2014. According to the plans of the developers, with the help of the MB-500 it will be possible to cultivate banana plantations, apply fertilizers to the soil and even sow rice, which significantly expands the geography, sales market and range of potential customers of the company. The approximate cost of the new aircraft will be about $250,000, which will allow it to compete with existing analogues on the market and gain a foothold in a new niche for the company.

“T-500 is a civil specialized aircraft designed for aviation and chemical work in agriculture and forestry. Also, this aircraft can be used as a patrol aircraft, as an aircraft for influencing the weather (it can carry equipment that destroys thunderclouds or prevents hail). Such an aircraft will undoubtedly be in demand. Previously, about five thousand An-2 aircraft performed aviation and chemical work,” the director of the Kazan company told Tatar-inform news agency.

The last meeting, which was held by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Tatarstan together with the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Tatarstan, was held under the slogan of increasing labor productivity. Such an aircraft in agriculture is an increase in labor productivity by 7-10 times compared to ground equipment, that is, this aircraft is in line with the tasks that the President of the Republic sets before us, Yermolenko noted.

Debut at MAKS-2017

Last July, the T-500 made its debut at MAKS-2017. The Russian Aviation Registry has certified the MV-500 aircraft, which was developed by the Kazan company MVEN.

At the same time, at MAKS-2017, an agreement was signed on the creation of a pilot system of aerial chemical work in Tatarstan. The MV-500 aircraft, which is planned to be used in the implementation of the program, was also presented there.


“The most interesting thing about this aircraft is that it is almost all domestic. There is also a ground complex that provides field operation. It's like operating Formula 1 cars, when you need to urgently fill up with both chemistry and fuel, and again into battle. We have developed this entire complex, it is now ready, ”commented Andrey Silkin, head of ONPP Technologiya. Minister of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Tatarstan Albert Karimov added that the effectiveness of the aircraft is due to the fact that it was originally designed for its tasks, as a kind of "flying tractor".



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Agricultural aircraft M-500

Agricultural aircraft M-500 is designed to perform aviation and technical work in agriculture and forestry in all areas of Russia and abroad. M-500 should replace the outdated An-2.

MODIFICATIONS. The M-500 agricultural aircraft and aircraft based on it can be used to perform the following tasks:

  • delivery of goods and mail;
  • patrol flights;
  • sanitary transportation;
  • aerial photography;
  • business flights;
  • initial pilot training;
  • others

    DIMENSIONS.

  • Aircraft length 10.6 m;
  • Wingspan 15.52 m;
  • Aircraft height 3.57 m;
  • Chassis base 7.2 m;
  • Chassis track 2.8 m;
  • Screw diameter 2.6 m.

    NUMBER OF PLACES.

  • Crew 1 person;
  • Extra bed (operator) for 1 person.

    ENGINES. It is planned to install one piston engine on the aircraft with fuel consumption in the agrochemical mode of 190 g/hp.h.

    MASSES AND LOADS.

  • Takeoff weight 2500 kg;
  • Permissible takeoff weight 2900 kg;
  • Empty weight 1290 kg;
  • Chemicals 950 kg;
  • Fuel supply for 2 flight hours, incl. ANZ for 0.5 h 100 kg.

    FLIGHT DATA.

  • Ferry range with a maximum fuel reserve of 1000 km;
  • Operating speed over the rut 120... 210 km/h;
  • Working height 1...30 m;
  • The execution time of the AHR with one refueling is at least 1.5 flight hours.

    Take-off and landing characteristics (t=30С, Р=730 mm Hg)

    As Valery Novikov, general designer of EMZ, stated in August 2000, the dimensions of the runway will not exceed 460 m on the ground and 420 m on concrete. However, according to the data for 1995, the takeoff and landing characteristics were different.

  • Takeoff run (soil/concrete) 295 / 290 m;
  • Run length (soil/concrete) 185 / 185 m;
  • Takeoff distance (soil/concrete) 450 / 430 m;
  • Landing distance (soil/concrete) 485 / 485 m.

    DESIGN FEATURES.

  • Assigned resource 5000 flight hours.

    PROGRAM STATUS. As reported at the end of August 2000, the project of the new M-500 agricultural aircraft was included in the Russian civil aviation development program until 2015. Moreover, the M-500 will not be financed on a competitive basis, however, only part of the funds will be allocated from the state budget, the rest should be found by the developer.

    The construction of the M-500 will be carried out at two aircraft factories in Smolensk and Nizhny Novgorod.

    PRICE. The M-500 program will be funded by the Russian Aerospace Agency. The cost of research and development work will be in 2001-2003. $5-8 million with the price of the aircraft $140,000. The potential M-500 market for Russia is estimated at 500 aircraft.

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. The M-500 aircraft provides:

  • average productivity for all types of work - 67.8 hectares / flight hour (30% higher than that of the An-2);
  • reduction in the cost of processing 1 hectare compared to the An-2 aircraft up to 48%;
  • reduction in the cost of processing 1 hectare in comparison with the An-2 aircraft up to 65%;
  • annual economical effect from the use of the M-500 aircraft for aviation chemical work will amount to 93.2 million rubles. with an annual flight time of 540 hours. and 327 million rubles. with an annual flight time of 1000 hours (in 1995 prices);
  • the payback period for capital investments in the M-500 aircraft is 2.11 years with an annual flight time of 540 hours and 1.87 years with an annual flight time of 1000 hours (in 1995 prices).
  • So the international aviation and space salon MAKS-2017 died down in Zhukovsky near Moscow. Seven hundred Russian participants and almost two hundred foreign ones, representatives of thirty-six countries of the world. The first show of the latest MiG-35 fighter, the Be-200 ChS amphibious aircraft for firefighters, the Russian drone with the air taxi function, the “freshest” armored vehicles ... Against this background, the Rostec Corporation presented its first T-500 aircraft (not to be confused with a tank and tractor T-50), which was presented no less than one of the stages in the creation of the All-Russian system for managing aerial chemical work. The field aviation complex for agriculture, which allegedly has no domestic analogues (PAK CX - does it remind you of anything?), Includes the aircraft itself and a ground refueling complex. On the scale of the whole of Russia, the system for managing aerial chemical works also implies the creation of a single database for accounting for crop areas, the introduction electronic principle conducting aerial chemical works using the GLONASS system, etc.

    After water slides and pools

    Signing an agreement with the Minister of Industry of Tatarstan Albert Karimov one of the top managers of Rostec Sergey Abramov, according to journalists, said: “We presented a project whose task is to fill a niche formed due to the long absence of small aircraft. These are agricultural services associated with aerial chemical treatment of territories. Thanks to the active position of the Republic of Tatarstan, we proposed to place the first pilot production on their territory.” According to Karimov, developments on the design of the T-500 "were once made in Kazan, where the assembly of the aircraft will be partially carried out." True, at the same time it was stated that Obninsk was allegedly ready for serial production of the aircraft - it was from the contract between the Obninsk Research and Production Enterprise "Tekhnologiya" named after A.G. Romashina and the Mven company from Tatarstan, the history of this project just began last year, and it was at the NPP site that this time several contracts for the T-500 were signed.

    According to SP-Povolzhye, taken from open sources, Mven LLC is registered in Kazan, on the street. Dementieva. The main activity as a small enterprise is scientific research in the field of natural and technical sciences. CEO and one of the two co-owners Viktor Ermolenko is also the president of the Parachuting Federation of the Republic of Tatarstan (registered, by the way, at the same address as Mven), and the financial director and second co-owner Mikhail Nevelsky, at the same time heads SpasKap LLC (the address is the same, the production of helicopters, airplanes and other aircraft), the founders of which are Mven LLC and the Maslova Center design bureau from Mytishchi near Moscow.

    According to information on the company's website, among the manufactured products are swimming pools and water slides, various fiberglass products, high-speed parachute rescue systems for crew and passengers along with the aircraft, as well as the light aircraft themselves.

    At the end of 2011, the media even announced plans to launch an aircraft factory in Kazakhstan for the production of agricultural aircraft manufactured by the Mven company. The cost of the project amounted to about 11.5 million dollars, the President of Kazakhstan took part in the opening ceremony Nursultan Nazarbaev. It was assumed that the plant would produce 36 aircraft developed in Kazan per year (plus non-core kayaks, tanks for fuel and lubricants, boats), and then go on to produce its own design - a four-seat aircraft "Sunkar" (translated from Kazakh - "Falcon").

    In the fall of 2014, a new MV-500 agricultural aircraft was put on the wing at the airfield near Kazan, which became a further development of the Farmer, one of the main Mven developments, which received a more powerful engine (as before in the US) and the ability, according to the words developers, almost sow rice, and not just spray liquid fertilizers.

    It was stated that for the manufacture of its all-composite wing in Kazan, it was necessary to design and build a special long furnace. The following year, the MV-500, which is considered the prototype of today's T-500, was shown at MAKS-2015. Now, again, according to the information on the Mven website, at the stage of detailed design is a comfortable Murena aircraft with Austrian-made engines and even a six-seater Kinetic jet (Mven-9) with a takeoff weight of under three tons.

    “We have to prove that the car meets the standards”

    So, the new T-500 aircraft as part of a project to create an all-Russian system for managing aerial chemical work. The wingspan is under 12.4 meters, the engines are again American-made, the chassis design does not require airfields. Cruising speed is 160 km per hour, range is up to 1,000 km. The maximum takeoff weight is 1475 kg with an empty aircraft of 756 kg. The airframe of this aircraft, designed to become a competitor to ground types of special equipment, is made of composite materials, the presence of a nozzle system for ultra-low-volume spraying of chemicals should allow it to pollinate up to 150 hectares per hour, and due to the use of the hot molding method, it can be operated in hot climates. And in general, representatives of "Technology" assured that the T-500 can be used not only for the actual pollination of fields, but also for oil spill response, impact on hydrometeorological conditions, environmental monitoring, etc.

    Tests of the "flying tractor", as they called the T-500, have already been carried out; certification should be completed by the end of 2018, and it is planned to produce 60 such aircraft over the next three years. “Now the T-500 specialized agricultural aircraft is undergoing certification, which will allow these machines to be sold all over the world, including to Latin America, Europe, and also to Belarus - to everyone who is actively involved in agriculture. We must prove that this machine meets aviation standards,” said Viktor Ermolenko, CEO of Mven. The cost of one such aircraft, according to some sources, is about 250 thousand dollars.

    It is curious that at the same aerospace show Rostec signed an agreement with the Perm Territory. According to Kommersant, the first joint project should be cooperation between Perm agricultural enterprises and a state corporation in the field of aerial chemical processing of fields. “Cooperation with Rostec involves additional features for agriculture in terms of processing farmland. Agricultural producers who use our support have a need for this kind of service. Cultivation of fields is an increase in productivity, the efficiency of agriculture. We are considering this promising topic, which simultaneously solves the issues of the aircraft industry in the country, and at the same time the efficiency of agriculture,” said the Acting Governor Perm Territory Maxim Reshetnikov.

    Representatives of Rostec, speaking about the importance of developing the presence of the state corporation in the region, first of all, mentioned Motovilikha Plants. But, let us recall, last summer in the article “Producers of Grad and Smerch were put under attack?” we described in detail the situation associated with attempts to bankrupt this one of the oldest machine-building enterprises in the Urals, which are part of Rostec. One of the central places of the article was the bankruptcy lawsuit of Motovilikha, which was filed by a certain trade company"Nova", registered in one of the villages of the Novgorod region, to which the company allegedly owes more than 30 million rubles.

    In April 2017, the Motovilikha Plants seemed to have paid off the debt to Nova, but by July it turned out that the All-Russian Research Institute Signal (Vladimir Region) had filed a similar claim for their insolvency - the price of the new issue was 32.1 million. Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, the court hearing in the bankruptcy case of PJSC Motovilikhinskiye Zavody has been postponed until August 4.