Tupolev '102'

The Tupolev '102' was a 1950s project by the Tupolev Design Bureau for a turboprop airliner, drawn up alongside the almost identical Tupolev '101' assault transport. The '102' had a pressurised cabin in one section, configured for 40 passengers, where the '101' had a rear loading ramp, a tail barbette for two Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23 cannon and an unpressurised cabin apart from the flightdeck and a small cabin for ten passengers. Both were projected with two Kuznetsov TV-2F turboprop engines of 5,200 kW each, a wingspan of 40 m, a gross weight of 36,000 kg and a top speed of 650 to 700 km/h. Similar requirements were issued to the Myasishchev and Antonov bureaus, and the Antonov response became the An-8, which formed the design root of all Antonov turboprop transports up to the An-22. The Tupolev designs were not built.