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The Beriev Be-32 STOL/VTOL military transport project series - Part 1


Between 1965 and 1970, OKB Beriev developed a series of STOL and S/VTOL military transport projects of different types and configurations, which shared the designation Be-32 (which was later applied to the improved version of the twin-engine turboprop regional transport Be-30 “Cuff”). 


Below is a brief description of those projects.




S/VTOL transport Beriev Be-32 with 2 cruise turbojets and 12 lift engines (1965)


This aircraft with high-set wings without sweep and a T-tail was propelled in cruise by two turbojet engines located in separate nacelles under the wings and 12 lift engines grouped in two special fairings under the outher  wings.


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Source: “Unflown Wings” Soviet and Russian Unrealised Aircraft Projects 1925-2010, by Yefim Gordon & Sergei Komissarov.


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