TRENDS AND PROSPECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF JET TRAINER AIRCRAFT

• Petro Nor

  Central Scientific Research Institute of Armament and Military Equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8784-0093 (unauthenticated)

A study of the trends in the development of jet trainers for the last more than 70 years has been carried out. Flight-technical characteristics of almost all serial jet trainers created since the late 40s of the last century to the present time are considered and analysed. Thus, the resulted collection included 38 types of aircraft equipped with turbojet engines. The classification of jet trainer aircrafts into three development generations is proposed and the characteristic features of each generation are formulated. Based on these characteristics, the first generation includes 14 types of jet trainer aircrafts, created from the late 40’s to the mid-60’s. The most indicative and mass representatives of this generation are Т-33Аs of Lockheed, created on the base of combat aircraft T-80, French SM-170 “Magtster, Т-37V (S) “Тweet” of Cessna and Czechoslovak L-29 “Dolphin”. The second generation consists of 20 types of jet trainer aircrafts, created after the mid-60s until approximately 2005, which currently constitute the basis of the world fleet of aircraft of this type. The most indicative representatives are the American jet trainer aircraft T-38 Talon, Czechoslovak jet trainer aircraft L-39 Albatros and various modifications of jet trainer aircraft Hawk of the British company BAE Systems. The third generation is represented by 4 types of serial jet trainer aircrafts, adopted by different countries in the last decade. This is a South Korean T-50, a Russian Yak-130, an Italian M-346 and a Chinese L-15. Prospects for the development of jet trainers are associated with the expansion of the production of existing third-generation jet trainer aircrafts, as well as the expansion of their type. New promising jet trainer aircrafts participating in the US Air Force T-X competition for the procurement of 350 jet trainer aircrafts for basic and advanced flight training are considered.

1. Petro Nor, Central Scientific Research Institute of Armament and Military Equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

   Ph.D. in Engineering Science, Senior Research Fellow

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