Yakovlev Yak-44
The Yakovlev Yak -44 (Russian Яковлев Як -44) was the project of a Soviet early warning aircraft.
History
In the eighties, in the Soviet Union created a new class of aircraft carriers for the Soviet Navy, the project 1143.7, which never consummate zero ship was the Ulyanovsk. On these new carriers comparable early warning aircraft should next high-performance fighters with the American E-2 Hawkeye are stationed.
For this, the Yakovlev OKB received an order for construction of a Yak- 44 engine above. This is designed as high-wing type should be equipped with two 14,000 hp ( 10,300 kW) turboprop engines of the type Ivchenko Progress D- 27, the two counter-rotating propellers (front Eight leaf, rear six-blade ) should drive. A Tellerradom was on top of the fuselage.
It was built at least a mock-up. The development was canceled for financial reasons. As a cheaper compromise solution was Kamov Ka -31 for the fleet of early warning helicopters.