Yakovlev Yak-44

The Yakovlev Yak-44 was a proposed twin-turboprop airborne early warning aircraft resembling the American E-2 Hawkeye, intended to fly from the Soviet Navy's Ulyanovsk class supercarriers. The Navy chose in the late 1970s to build carriers that could operate conventional aircraft, and the Yakovlev bureau was told to develop the aircraft in 1979, with anti-submarine and carrier delivery versions also planned. The Yak-44E was a twin-engined high-wing monoplane with a rotating radar dome and two Progress D-27 propfans. It was cancelled after the Soviet Union collapsed, with a full-scale mockup with folding wings built.