Kuznetsov NK-14

The Kuznetsov NK-14A was an onboard nuclear-powered engine which was made to be used on the Tupolev Tu-119 nuclear-powered aircraft, designed and built by the Soviet Kuznetsov Design Bureau. The design of the plane was based on a modified Tupolev Tu-95 and would be fitted with two Kuznetsov NK-14A nuclear-fuelled engines inboard fed with heat from a fuselage mounted reactor and two Kerosene-fed Kuznetsov NK-12 turboprops outboard.[1]

Development was suspended with the cancellation of the Tu-119, but flight trials would have been made initially fitted to the inboard nacelles of the Tu-119 prototype.[2]

References
  1. Butler, Tony; Yefim, Gordan (2004). "Chapter 6: Nuclear Power and Flying Wings". Soviet secret projects : Bombers since 1945. Hinckley: Midland Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85780-194-1.
  2. Gordon, Yefim; Vladimir Rigmant (2005). OKB Tupolev: A History of the Design Bureau and its Aircraft (1st ed.). Hinkley: Midland Publishing. pp. 155–157. ISBN 1 85780 214 4.


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