Ptrjong From Netherlands, joined Mar 2005, 3766 posts, RR: 20 Reply 1, posted (6 years 3 months 3 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 5748 times:
OK, you found your Soviet equivalent to the C-17, although the Il-106 was to have had propfans.
It's just an unbuilt design, though, like there are so many in the drawers of manufacturers in all countries. Like people tried to explain to you in the other thread, there was little reason really to produce a direct counterpart to the C-17, and with the dire economic situation in Russia in the 1990s, it's even less surprising that it never came even close to being built.
Peter
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DEVILFISH From Philippines, joined Jan 2006, 4423 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (6 years 3 months 3 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 5735 times:
Quoting Ptrjong (Reply 1): there was little reason really to produce a direct counterpart to the C-17, and with the dire economic situation in Russia in the 1990s, it's even less surprising that it never came even close to being built.
This old article described the conditions obtaining at the time (with a passing mention of the Il-106) which made for a very unfavorable manufacturing environment.....
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