UEC Saturn

UEC Saturn
Native name
 ПАО «ОДК-Сатурн»
Open joint-stock company
Industry Mechanical engineering
Founded 1916 (1916), 2001 (2001)
Headquarters Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia
Key people
 Ilya Nikolayevich Fyodorov, managing director
Products Aircraft engines, components
Revenue RUB10.5 billion[1] (2011)
RUB53 million (2011)
Number of employees
 23,000 (2011)
Parent United Engine Corporation[2]
Website npo-saturn.ru

UEC NPO Saturn PJSC (Russian: ОДК-Сатурн) is a Russian aircraft engine manufacturer, formed from the mergers of Rybinsk motors JSC and Lyul'ka-Saturn JSC (after Arkhip Mikhailovich Lyulka) in 2001.[3] Saturn's engines power many former Eastern Bloc aircraft, such as the Tupolev Tu-154. Saturn holds a 50% stake in the PowerJet joint venture with Snecma. The company, founded by Pavel Soloviev, has its headquarters in the town of Rybinsk. Previously Shvetsov and Kolesov Design Bureaus.

History

UEC Saturn was established in 2001, following the merger of Rybinsk Motors and Lyulka-Saturn.[4]

Rybinsk Motors was originally known as the Kolesov Engine Design Bureau. Kolesov took over the organization from V.A. Dobrynin who founded it in the late 1930s or early 1940s. Under Kolesov's direction, the bureau designed turbojet engines for the Myasishchev M-50 Bounder experimental supersonic bomber, turbojets for the Tu-22 Blinder medium bomber, RD-36-35FVR lift engines for the Yak-38 Forger, RD-36-51A supersonic engines for the Tu-144 SST, RD-36-51V engines for the Myasishchev M-17 Mystic, and lift engines for the Yak-141 Freestyle.[5]

Lyulka-Saturn was named for its founder, A. M. Lyulka.[5]

Following the 2014 Crimean crisis, the Ukrainians refused to supply the Russian Navy with marine gas turbines from Zorya-Mashproekt, and so Saturn has been commissioned to design new engines for the Admiral Gorshkov and Admiral Grigorovich-class frigates. USC forecast these new engines will be available in 2017-18, allowing ships to be commissioned from 2020.[6]

UEC Saturn announced in April 2017 that Saturn's marine turbines are now in production and undergoing sea trials prior to delivery.[7] This is the first venture by a Russian manufacturer into the production of large marine gas turbines, aimed at completely replacing the earlier Ukrainian equivalents.[8]

Products

Buran snowmobile

Turbojets

Saturn makes the AL-31 turbojet which powers China's Chengdu J-10 multirole jet fighter aircraft.

Turbofans

Gas Turbines

Turboshaft

Turboprop

Snow mobile

"RUSSKAYA MEKHANIKA“ company is the manufacturer of snowmobiles TAJGA and BURAN, Approximately 10000 of these units come from the plant each year. It is a 100% affiliated company of NPO SATURN. The snowmobiles have been produced in Rybinsk in the Yaroslavl Oblast. (approx. 400 km north of Moscow) since 1971.

References

  1. ↑ «Сатурн» подвел итоги - Новости
  2. ↑ "Structure" (in Russian). United Engine Corporation. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
  3. ↑ NPO Saturn company history 1997-2008
  4. ↑ Буйлов, Максим (11 March 2001). "Ведомости". Газета "Коммерсантъ". p. 5. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  5. 1 2 "Russian Defense Business Directory". Federation of American Scientists. US Department of Commerce Bureau of Export Administration. May 1995. Retrieved 21 July 2017.  This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  6. ↑ LaGrone, Sam (10 June 2015). "Delays Without Ukrainian Engines, Officials Pledge to Sue". USNI News.
  7. ↑ http://www.janes.com/article/70076/npo-saturn-launches-powerplant-production-for-russian-navy
  8. ↑ http://mil.today/2017/Science8/
  9. ↑ "Saturn military aircraft engines of the 4th generation". NPO Saturn website. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  10. ↑ "Saturn military aircraft engines of generation 4+". NPO Saturn website. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  11. ↑ "Saturn military engines for unmanned aerial vehicles". NPO Saturn website. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  12. ↑ "turboshaft engine for multi-purpose helicopters". NPO Saturn website. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  13. ↑ "turboprop engine for general aviation aircraft". NPO Saturn website. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
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