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By: - 9th August 2005 at 20:27 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I think so , it was a german design in the 1960 before the F-4 was pushed onto them. But one of the engines was a rocket engine
By: - 9th August 2005 at 20:45 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
The Yak-141 had three engines - a single lift/cruise engine plus two lift engines :D
As did the Yak-38 !!!!
Ken
By: - 9th August 2005 at 21:12 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
The Yak-141 had three engines - a single lift/cruise engine plus two lift engines :DAs did the Yak-38 !!!!
Ken
Okay, I knew as soon as I posted it that someone would bring that up. :) To clarify, what I mean is three engines for forward thrust.
By: - 9th August 2005 at 22:48 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
French Trident: 2 jets & 1 rocket.
Some British project might have contained 3 engines, too...
By: - 9th August 2005 at 22:51 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Are you looking specifically for a tri-jet? Or any fighter with more than two engines?
Germany's VJ 101c had four.
--Gavin.
By: - 9th August 2005 at 23:44 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Yes, I'm looking for any instance of a fighter design or proposal with three engines mounted conventionally, i.e., intakes toward the front, nozzles in the rear. But it's starting to look like there haven't been any.
By: - 10th August 2005 at 00:16 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
There was a proposed fighter version of the A-5 Vigilante with a third J-79 engine above the other two, and armament consisting of AIM-54 Phoenix air-to-air missiles, but it never got past the drawing board.
http://www.vectorsite.net/ava5.html
Scroll down toward the bottom of the page after clicking that link, and you'll find a drawing of it.....it was called NR-349.
By: - 10th August 2005 at 00:23 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
alot of ww2 luftwaffe fighter plane projects had a 3 or more jets like these examples from Focke-Wulf
By: - 10th August 2005 at 08:48 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Here's a three-engined fighter: :p
By: - 10th August 2005 at 11:09 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Not a year ago, we had this thread already! The question dy Deino was "Why was there never a three-engined fighter ???"
see http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17159&highlight=Trident
By: - 10th August 2005 at 11:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
There was Yugoslav Ikarus 452-3 experimental light interceptor. One model (452-2) was powered by 2 x Turbomeca Palas turbojets (150 Kg of thrust) and 452-3 with 3 x Turbomeca Palas .It was only armed with cannons (or even maybe with heavy machine guns) but I am not sure about calibre. Aircraft was tested during 1953 http://www.vj.yu/VOC/Grafika/Galerija/Avioni/452_1-znak.jpg
By: - 10th August 2005 at 16:58 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Here's a three-engined fighter: :p
Funny - an old episode of BG is what caused me to think of the question.
Sorry I didn't notice this subject had been discussed before - I'm still relatively new to the board and haven't gone through all the archives yet.
By: - 10th August 2005 at 18:35 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Don't apologize for bringing up an old subject....especially since you're new.
If you want to learn you gotta ask, which is what you did.
Don't worry about it.
By: - 10th August 2005 at 21:27 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
There's a photoshop job floating around of a three engined Tomcat. Pretty funny.
http://www.strategypage.com/humor/articles/military_jokes_20057201.asp
By: - 11th August 2005 at 00:14 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
There's this
http://www.airpower.at/news03/1231_tranche4/t4b.htm
;-)
some other ones
Eurofighter PJC
http://www.airpower.at/news03/1231_tranche4/t4a.htm
Carrier capable
http://www.airpower.at/news03/1231_tranche4/t4c.htm
Improved stability
http://www.airpower.at/news03/1231_tranche4/t4d.htm
extended range
http://www.airpower.at/news03/1231_tranche4/t4e.htm
UCAV
http://www.airpower.at/news03/1231_tranche4/t4f.htm
Alternative propulsion
http://www.airpower.at/news03/1231_tranche4/t4g.htm
Enjoy
By: - 11th August 2005 at 00:18 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
The MiG SM-50 (MiG-17 with a liquid rocket) came close, as would have the rocket-equipped Lightening (though since it was a double Scorpion, I guess that would have been four...).
The most insane three-engine fighter has to be the Polikarpov I-152/DM-2. A biplane with two ramjets. That's what comes of state-sponsored vodka !
By: - 11th August 2005 at 04:57 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Funny isn't it? This topic repeats itself here every once in 2-3 years and every time I hear/learn about a new tri-engined fighter! :)
Last time IIRC Arthur had posted a few tri-engine photos. I might have saved them - will look for them and post when and if I find them.
By: - 11th August 2005 at 15:10 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Phantom, the NR349 was to have its third J79 in the area occupied by the the bomb-and-fuel-tunnel in the A-5. It would have been a most remarkable aircraft...
Then there is the Curtiss XF-87 Blackhawk, a conventional four-engined jet fighter. The only kill it made was to the Curtiss company itself.
And the MiG SM-30 was a MiG-19 with the ventral fin replaced by a PRD-22 solid-fuel rocket, which qualifies as an engine if you ask me.
By: - 11th August 2005 at 17:28 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Me 262C
Some prototype and planned versions of the Messerschmitt 262 C had 3 engines - two jet engines and 1 rocket engine.
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By: Meat - 9th August 2005 at 20:21
Has there ever been a design or proposal for a three-engine jet fighter?