UEC Saturn
UEC NPO Saturn, PJSC is a Russian aircraft engine manufacturer, formed from the mergers of Rybinsk Motors and Lyul'ka-Saturn in 2001. 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 Safran [Aircraft Engines]. The company, founded by Pavel Soloviev, has its headquarters in the town of Rybinsk.
History
UEC Saturn was established in 2001, following the merger of Rybinsk Motors and Lyulka-Saturn.Rybinsk Motors was established on 20 October 1916 as the Russian Renault automotive plant. In 1917 it started producing aviation engines for the Ilya Muromets aircraft. The company was nationalized in 1918.
Rybinsk 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.
Lyulka-Saturn was named after its founder, A. M. Lyulka.
Following the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, 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.
UEC Saturn announced in April 2017 that Saturn's marine turbines are now in production and undergoing sea trials prior to delivery. 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.
Products
Turbojets
Turboshaft
- Saturn RD-600V
Turboprop
- Saturn/Lyulka AL-34
- Saturn TVD-1500B
Turbofans
- AL-31 series
- * AL-31FP
- * AL-41F-1
- * AL-41F-1S
- AL-32
- AL-41
- AL-51
- 36MT and 37-01E, developed for the Kh-59M Kh55 Kh65 Kh101 KhBD family of air-launched tactical missiles and UAV UCAV use
- AL-146 or SD146 PowerJet SaM146, along subcontracted CFM56 with Safran Aircraft Engines since 1998
- AL-55
- D-30K/F
Gas turbines
Saturn VMF
- M70FR FRU 10 14 MW unit M27 M7N1, M70RU
- M70FRU2 6 8 MW unit M35; M75RU Gas Turbine, M75FR
- E70/8RD
- M90FR FRU unit M55R
- M80RU FR FRU
- D049R, DO49R, D055R
- AL-31ST 16 MW at UMPO along AL31STN and other GTs
- AL-31STE 18 MW at UMPO
- GT-25PU
- AL-41ST-25 25 MW UMPO
- GTD-110 GTD110M
- GTN-25-1 25 MW built at Tjumen Engine Plant TMZ and Ural Turbine Plant UTZ at Ekaterinburg
- Baltika-25 unit with 25 MW engine GT-10 built at AVV Nevskij
- GTE45
- GTU32 "Ladoga" built at NZL plant Saint Petersburg
- GTU86 82 MW at RGT, Rybinsk
- GTE-180, GTE-160, further, along SilMash, GTT, KTZ and UTZ
- GTN-25 UTZ Gas TurboGenerator 25 MW GPA-25/76 at Nevsky Zavod, GPA25 GCP25 Iskra Perm
- GP2, GT-12PU 12.4 MW GTU-12PG-2 12.3 MW
- GTD-6/8RM, DO49, GTD-4RM, GTD-10RM, GTD-6,3RM
- PGU-165/325/495 Steam Gas units respectively 165 325 and 495 MW electric power.
Turborus
- M3N M5E M8 M10, M15A M15-B M15V, M35, M7K, M7N M7N1, M9, M21A, MT70, DT4
- DT 59, DK 59, DN 59, DE 59, D063, DR77 DS 77 DN 77, DD 50, DO 75, DM 71 DR 71 DP 71 DS 71, DR 76, DM 76, DA 90, DO 90, DA 91.
Rocket engines
- LREs
- Vernier, other