Novi Avion
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| Type: | Multipurpose fighter |
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| First flight: |
planned for 1992, according to other sources for 1995 |
| Commissioning: |
Mid-1990s (planned) |
| Number of pieces: |
150 (planned) |
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The Novi Avion (in German: New Airplane ) was a planned Yugoslav single - engine multi- role fighter aircraft .
history
In the mid-1980s, the Yugoslav Aeronautical Institute began work on a fighter aircraft that would replace the older MiG-21 in the Yugoslav Air Force. The project was carried out under the name Novi Avion . An alternative name, perhaps later the official name, was supersonic . Up to 150 units were planned. The first flight of a prototype was planned for 1992. As an interim solution up to the introduction of the Novi Avion, the Yugoslav Air Force ordered 50 MiG-29s , of which 14 MiG-29B and 2 MiG-29UB were delivered until the breakup of Yugoslavia. With the disintegration of Yugoslavia in 1991, the project was canceled and finally discontinued.
The French Rafale , which was also in the development stage, served as a model for the Novi Avion . Accordingly, Dassault Aviation was also involved in the project, some parts of the aircraft would have been produced in France. The Novi Avion would basically have been a simplified and cheaper version of the Rafale, with only one engine instead of two as in the French model. The Snecma M88 was intended as the engine . The on-board radar Cyrano IVMR as in the Mirage F1 or RDM / RDI as in the Mirage 2000 might have been used. Dassault estimated a possible export opportunity for the aircraft at 300 to 500 units.
Technical specifications
| Parameter | Computational data |
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| crew | 1 |
| length | 13.75 m |
| span | 8.00 m |
| height | 4.87 m |
| Wing area | 30.00 m² |
| Wing loading | maximum (max. takeoff weight): 446.67 kg / m² |
| Empty mass | 6,247 kg |
| Max. Takeoff mass | 13,400 kg |
| Load factor | up to +8.84 g |
| Top speed | 2,000 km / h or Mach 1.88 |
| Service ceiling | 17,000 m |
| Range | 3,765 km |
| Max. Gun load | 4,500 kg at 11 external load stations (9 of them under the wings and under the fuselage and two on the wing tips) |
| Engine | a Snecma M88 turbofan engine |
Armament
- a 30mm cannon
- Air-to-air missiles Magic 2 and MICA
- Bombs and guided bombs
- Air-to-surface cruise missiles such as the MBDA Apache
- presumably also the anti-ship missile AM.39 Exocet