Amodel 1/72 An-71 AWACS Review

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

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:-

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