Ukraine has test fired for the first time newly designed engine AI-136T. It is intended for China's super heavy helicopter program. The helicopter itself is planned to be based on Soviet MI-26 airframe design, although scaled down somewhat to a smaller size. In combination with more powerful engine than previously used, new helicopter is expected to be a much more energetic machine, with higher combat ceiling, higher speed and better maneuverability. Expected payload capacity is 30 tons.
The MI-26 was the largest and most powerful helicopter to have gone into series production.
Poster Comment:
Ukraine also supplied Communist China with their first aircraft carrier. Despite Ukraine arming our main foe; establishment cucks want us to defend Ukraine.
#1: Tooconservative To: nativist nationalist (#0)
I didn't know that. I knew it was an abandoned Soviet project, not that it was abandoned in a Ukraine shipyard before completion.
Quite a story of how it came into Chinese hands, the subterfuge in pretending it was to be a tourist attraction, and the huge debts amassed by the purchaser who has not been repaid by China. That dude is a Chinese naval patriot, wants China to have its own carriers.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-01-27 14:41:26 Reply Private Reply
#2: Pericles To: Tooconservative, nativist nationalist (#1)
The helicopter maker is still Russia's number one supplier. Even after the war.
Pericles posted on 2017-01-28 16:43:10 Reply Private Reply