Category Helicopters

At the end of September after several years of "viscous" negotiations of the Ministry of Defence of India at last signed with the government of the USA and the Boeing company contracts on purchase of 22 AH-64E Apache Guardian helicopters and 15 transport CH-47F Chinook helicopters. The total cost of contracts made about $3 billion, reports the blog bmpd referring to «Jane’s Defence Weekly».

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Fighting possibilities of the 201st military base deployed in the Republic of Tajikistan, the helicopter aircraft will strengthen, reported to "Interfax" of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation on Wednesday.

The structure of division included shock Mi-24P helicopters and transport and combat Mi-8MTB.

In the Ministry of Defence specify that the created aviagroup will be based in the Gissarsky region of Continue reading →

AgustaWestland finished demonstration of the pilotless PZL-Swidnik SW-4 helicopter for the Ministry of Defence of Great Britain.

Development was conducted since 2013 when AgustaWestland tested the rotary-wing pilotless flying systems in Llanbedr airfield in Wales.

Testing took in total 27 hours of flying tests of PZL-Swidnik SW-4 of the helicopter. During tests 22 landings to the moving truck used on tests for imitation of landing to a frigate Continue reading →