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It also made little sense for the Russians to power airframes made in their country with engines manufactured elsewhere. If the supply of engines is cut off what do you do with the airframes?
This is the Russians after all and airframe production of some models is hundreds of aircraft a month.
Just about all successful Large Russian engines were developments of western engines in anycase. The Russians would certainly test western engines to learn what they could and if they thought they couldn't get similar results from one of their existing engines they would probably have asked for a manufacturing licence for the engine they were interested in. After all, they had negotiated licences for the Wright Cyclone, the Hispano Y series, some Gnome- Rhone designs and the Renault air cooled series before the war.
Another problem is Russian gasoline. It wasn't the same as British or American gasoline. THe West supplied a lot of aviation fuel to the Russians during WW II of which a large amount was used in the Western supplied aircraft. Increasing the number of engines in Russia needing this fuel by large numbers might have affected the supply problem.
This is the Russians after all and airframe production of some models is hundreds of aircraft a month.
Just about all successful Large Russian engines were developments of western engines in anycase. The Russians would certainly test western engines to learn what they could and if they thought they couldn't get similar results from one of their existing engines they would probably have asked for a manufacturing licence for the engine they were interested in. After all, they had negotiated licences for the Wright Cyclone, the Hispano Y series, some Gnome- Rhone designs and the Renault air cooled series before the war.
Another problem is Russian gasoline. It wasn't the same as British or American gasoline. THe West supplied a lot of aviation fuel to the Russians during WW II of which a large amount was used in the Western supplied aircraft. Increasing the number of engines in Russia needing this fuel by large numbers might have affected the supply problem.