Sheet "AN-32P firefighting plane"

Description:

AN-32P firefighting aircraft produced by the Kyiv Aviation Plant "AVIANT" (1993). The machine is built on the basis of the AN-32 serial military transport aircraft and is intended for extinguishing forest fires, delivering 30 paratroopers, special firefighting equipment and cargo to the place of firefighting. It can exert an active influence on clouds in order to artificially cause precipitation over the burning zone. The aircraft is equipped with four external removable tanks of 2000 liters of fire extinguishing agent each, which can be discharged all at once or sequentially. 

The first flight of the An-32P was made on February 16, 1993. The first use was extinguishing a forest fire in the mountainous Crimea - in the fall of the same year. When 8,000 liters of fire-extinguishing substance are dropped from four tanks from a height of 40-50 m, it provides an extinguishing strip 120-160 m long and 10 to 50 m wide. The crew consists of 3 people. The flight range is 700 km. Cruising speed of 500 km/h and 220 - when extinguishing a fire.

An effective tactic of using the AN-32P is the use of a link consisting of three aircraft. Lanka not only carries out the extinguishing itself, but also creates conditions for the impossibility of fire spread by dropping the fire extinguishing substance in front of the front of the fire element.

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