Amodel 1/72 An-71 AWACS Review

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Michael Benolkin
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With all due respect to Mr Rouch, there are a couple of slight inaccuracies in his text......

The An-71 did not have a six-metre 'greatly extended' wingspan - it was based on a production An-72 with the same wingspan of 31.89 metres.

The confusion arises because the the PROTOTYPE An-71 had a span of

25.83m. All subsequent An-72/71/74's had the 6-metre larger span.

Also - it was not actually intended as a carrier-based AEW a/c - it was strictly land-based.

It was considered (after it had been designed) - but was deemed to be too heavy.

That is why the Yak-44 (E-2C Hawkeye lookalike) was designed from the start as the carrier-based option.

The An-71 is still languishing at Gostomel, Kiev, Ukraine - see the pics on my webpages at:-

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Ken Flanker Freak & Russian Aviati> Sorry, I didn't see the link broken. The review is now online at >

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Ken Duffey

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