Engine technologies
Ukrainian Defense Review/January-March 2020
Gas Turbine U Engines from Ukraine INS Ranvir, Rajput class Destroyer of the Indian Navy, with Ukrainian gas turbine engines
kraine has inherited a unique legacy from the Soviet Union – a fully self-sufficient industry integrating the design, development, testing, and series production of the gas turbine engines (GTE) of various power output and purpose, as well as various gearboxes and gas turbine units (GTU), using the capacities of the Union Design Bureau "Mashproekt" and the Yuzhnii (Southern) Turbine Plant "Zorya", both located in the city of Mykolayiv. The two companies merged in 2001 to form what is now the State Enterprise "Gas Turbine Research & Production Complex "Zorya"-"Mashproekt" (SE GTRPC "Zorya"-"Mashproekt"), which is an affiliate of the Ukroboronprom State Defense Industries Group. SE GTRPC "Zorya"-"Mashproekt" has won renown far beyond Ukraine for its products for both civilian and military markets. The Company doesn’t rest on its laurels but offers potential customers promising innovative solutions along with already well known products.
Potential and Capacities
SE GTRPC "Zorya"-"Mashproekt" currently is Ukraine’s top leading developer and supplier of gas-turbine equipment of international quality standards. Employing a workforce of up to 9,000 highly skilled and experienced workers and engineers, the Company has a great experience and a long tradition in the world of marine gas turbines. It is there in Mykolayiv where there were produced the world’s first variable-speed combined gas turbine and gas turbine (COGAG) propulsion system, the M3, and again the world’s first gas-turbine powered anti-submarine warfare ship, the Project 61 Komsomolets of Ukraine, which the Americans nicknamed "Singing Frigate" for the characteristic noise of its gas turbines. Initially the Company has developed, produced and sold great quantities of the second-gen engines M60 and M8, DT4 with efficiency of 28 percent; COGAG propulsion systems M5, M7 and M9. Afterwards the third-gen engines M75, M70, and M90 for all classes of ships with improved efficiency of 30-35 percent entered in service. SE GTRPC "Zorya"-"Mashproekt" pioneered the use of new structural materials, such as ceramics and compounds, capable to withstand
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