Talk:Klimov VK-1

This article is poor in content and historically inaccurate. It appears to have been based on western perception rather than fact. A very good staring point for people to know about this engine (which prep-dates the Nene) is either the Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust Book No. 33 'Early Russian Jet Engines' by Vladimir Kotelnikov & Tony Buttler, 2002 or 'History And Development 1930-1960 Volume 2: USSR, USA, Japan, France, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy and Hungary' by Antony Kay 2007. Both provide a clear origin of this engine and relationship to the Nene. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.70.202.182 (talk) 21:18, 28 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

So...the Soviet Union received examples of the Nene from Rolls-Royce courtesy of the British government, but the fact that the Soviets almost immediately started producing virtual COPIES of the Nene is just a coincidence? I imagine the J42 isn't an exact copy of the Nene, either, but a copy it remains.172.190.97.242 (talk) 19:22, 30 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

The NATO alliance must have known before 1958 that the MiG-15 used a Nene copy. In 1953 a North Korean pilot defected with his MiG. That aircraft is still on display in a USAF museum.Vgy7ujm (talk) 17:10, 23 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

According to Bill Gunston, Klimov, with S.P Isotov as his deputy, and the GAZ-117 team at Leningrad were tasked with copying the Nene in early 1946, with very little information on the Nene available to them, however it wasn't until September 1946 that they had access to a real Nene, and they then scrapped their earlier attempt. The resulting new copy was the RD-45 - the "45" being taken from the factory where it as produced, "GAZ-45" in Moscow.

The VK-1 was cleared for production in 1948, albeit with only a 25-hour TBO. Eventually over 39,000 were produced, in factories, GAZ-45, GAZ-16 at Ufa, and at GAZ-19 at Kuibyshev. "World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines - 5th edition" by Bill Gunston, p.118 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.148.220.131 (talk) 10:17, 14 September 2015 (UTC)Reply

The External Links section has some very useful historical and tech links, albeit in Czech & Russian languages. Since the links are html, the reader can drop the content into Google Translate and get a quite readable English translation. This is useful since English language information on Russian technology is very scarce. I re-added one link from "Engine" magazine that appears to have been deleted accidentally, and urge engineering historians not to ignore it :-) Santamoly (talk) 17:12, 10 October 2016 (UTC)Reply