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Yakovlev VVP-6

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The Yakovlev VVP-6 was an experimental design for a giant flying support and surface-to-air missile platform able to take off and land vertically. Described as perhaps the most radical design to come from the Yakovlev studio, it was to be a huge box-like craft 49 metres long that could carry food, fuel and munitions, or a complete SAM system with six SA-2 missiles on its upper surface. Six six-blade rotors, each driven by four turboshaft engines, would have given it 24 engines in all. The need for it ended when the Soviet Air Force did not put land-based VTOL jets into service, and it never went beyond the model stage.

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Turboshaft 1
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Design only (never built) 1
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Aircraft (no road body style) 1
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was an experimental design for a flying support and surface-to-air missile platform, capable of vertical takeoff and landing

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the Soviet Air Force failed to put land-based VTOL jets into service
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1. Yakovlev VVP-6 (Wikipedia)
  • Lead, body style
    was an experimental design for a flying support and surface-to-air missile platform, capable of vertical takeoff and landing
  • Lead, status
    It never progressed beyond the model stage
  • Development, engines
    Each rotor was to have been driven by four turboshaft engines
  • Lead, maker
    was an experimental design for a flying support and surface-to-air missile platform, capable of vertical takeoff and landing
  • Lead, country of origin
    the Soviet Air Force failed to put land-based VTOL jets into service
  • In Group: Vertical Takeoff and Landing Research Aircraft, Lead, kind of aircraft
    was an experimental design for a flying support and surface-to-air missile platform, capable of vertical takeoff and landing
  • Exemplifies: Aviation, Lead, mode
    was an experimental design for a flying support and surface-to-air missile platform, capable of vertical takeoff and landing
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