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  • Yakovlev Yak-50 (1949)
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  • On February 21, 1949 a Sovmin order requested the Yakovlev OKB to design a lightweight, radar-equipped, all-weather and night interceptor capable of Mach 0.97 at 4,000 m (13,000 ft). The aircraft was to utilize the Klimov VK-1 engine which first appeared on Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 and MiG-17 fighters. This engine was itself a Soviet copy of the British Rolls-Royce Nene centrifugal turbojet initially known as the RD-45. The leading fighter OKBs each created a prototype to meet the requirement, which included the Lavochkin La-200, Mig I-320, Suchoi Su-15 (unrelated to the later aircraft with the same designation) and the Yak-50 (again, unrelated to the later aircraft). A major difference was that while Yakolev used one engine, the other design bureaus used two.
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loaded weight main
  • 4155.0
climb rate main
  • 68.0
length alt
  • 1112.52
span main
  • 8.01 m
Status
  • Cancelled
thrust alt
  • 5940
primary user
Type
  • Fighter interceptor
loading main
  • 260
range alt
  • 528.0
length main
  • 11.12 m
area main
  • 16.0
span alt
  • 800.1
range main
  • 850.0
Manufacturer
  • Yakovlev
max speed main
  • 1120.0
thrust/weight
  • 0.650000
climb rate alt
  • 13400.0
ceiling main
  • 16,050 m
empty weight main
  • 3085.0
type of jet
  • centrifugal compressor turbojet engine
loaded weight alt
  • 9141.0
area alt
  • 172.2
First Flight
  • 1949-07-15
engine (jet)
max speed alt
  • 696.0
jet or prop?
  • jet
loading alt
  • 53
empty weight alt
  • 6787.0
thrust main
  • 26.5 kN
number of jets
  • 1
plane or copter?
  • plane
ceiling alt
  • 52600.0
Crew
  • 1
Armament
  • * 2× 23 mm Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23 cannons, 80 rounds/gun
abstract
  • On February 21, 1949 a Sovmin order requested the Yakovlev OKB to design a lightweight, radar-equipped, all-weather and night interceptor capable of Mach 0.97 at 4,000 m (13,000 ft). The aircraft was to utilize the Klimov VK-1 engine which first appeared on Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 and MiG-17 fighters. This engine was itself a Soviet copy of the British Rolls-Royce Nene centrifugal turbojet initially known as the RD-45. The leading fighter OKBs each created a prototype to meet the requirement, which included the Lavochkin La-200, Mig I-320, Suchoi Su-15 (unrelated to the later aircraft with the same designation) and the Yak-50 (again, unrelated to the later aircraft). A major difference was that while Yakolev used one engine, the other design bureaus used two.
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