The Shvetsov ASh-2 was a 28-cylinder, air-cooled, radial
aircraft engine
An aircraft engine, often referred to as an aero engine, is the power component of an aircraft propulsion system. Aircraft using power components are referred to as powered flight. Most aircraft engines are either piston engines or gas turbin ...
designed in the
Soviet Union
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in the late 1940s. It was inferior to the
Dobrynin VD-4K engine and did not enter production. One of the problems was air-cooling which ate up to 50% of the total engine power at 15000 meters. In contrast, the liquid-cooled VD-4K required only 5% of power for cooling at the same altitude.
Specifications (ASh-2)
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1940s aircraft piston engines
Aircraft air-cooled radial piston engines
Shvetsov aircraft engines