Mikulin AM-37
Mikulin AM-37 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Type | liquid-cooled, V12 engine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National origin | Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manufacturer | Mikulin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First run | 5 January 1941 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Produced | 1941 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number built | 39+ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developed from | Mikulin AM-35 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|} The Mikulin AM-37 was a Soviet aircraft piston engine designed prior to Russia's entry into World War II. An improved version of the Mikulin AM-35 V-12 engine, it was only produced in small numbers because of its unreliability. DevelopmentDesign work on a development of the AM-35 with boosted supercharging and an intercooler positioned behind the supercharger began on the factory's initiative in December 1939. A batch of ten prototypes was completed in 1940 and bench-testing began on 5 January 1941. It passed its State acceptance trials the following April and was approved for production. It was tested in a variety of aircraft, but proved to be unreliable and prone to overheating. Factory No. 24 in Moscow built only twenty-nine AM-37s, as the new engine was designated, in 1941 before the German advance forced the factory to evacuate in October. Mikulin had been unable to resolve the issues with the AM-37 in the meantime and production was not resumed.[1] Variants
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