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Rostvertol to start export deliveries of the Mi-26T2 heavy transport helicopter in 2015.
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| Rostvertol to start export deliveries of the Mi-26T2 heavy transport helicopter in 2015 | |||
Russian
company Rostvertol, part of the holding “Russian Helicopters”,
in 2015 starts export deliveries of deeply modernized heavy transport
helicopter in Mi-26T2 modification, a source in the military-industrial
complex reported to “Interfax-AVN”. |
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Rostvertol's Mi-26T2 heavy transport rotorcraft in flight demonstration |
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“Rostvertol”
will deliver to foreign customer in the first quarter of 2015 the first
of the ordered batch of Mi-26T2,” a spokesman said.
According to him,
the entire batch of Mi-26T2 will be delivered to foreign customer before
the end of March 2016. The helicopter Mi-26T2 can transport various cargos up to 20 tons and carry 82 paratroops. The latest avionics suite fitted also makes it possible to reduce the number of crew members from 5 to 2 people, plus an operator should the external sling be in use. The interviewee noted that in 2015 “Rostvertol” will produce at the same time Mi-26 in different versions for the Russian Air Force and foreign customers. In particular, for China we build helicopters of Mi-26TC version. In total in 2015 it will be released about 7-8 Mi-26 in various versions, the spokesman said. |
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