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The chief of the Pentagon Chuck Heygel, having arrived to Tbilisi with two-day official visit, discussed with the head of defensive department of Georgia the possible help of the United States in equipment of the Georgian army, including by military transport helicopters and promised to do the utmost for the accession of the Caucasian country to NATO. However, independent experts doubt realness of these plans after the Welsh summit where to Georgia refused granting "road map" according Continue reading →

In armed forces of Georgia modernization of helicopter park during which Soviet "Mi" will be replaced with American "Mohawks" is begun.

All resources which it was planned to spend for repair, the contents and service of the Soviet helicopters, will be directed on updating of helicopter park, the Izvestiya newspaper reports. How many helicopters it is necessary to replace while it is not known. Except the American cars Georgia expects to get and the French helicopters.

On February Continue reading →

In Erebuni’s Armenian airfield near Yerevan where the aviagroup of the 102nd Russian military base is deployed, it is decided to create a squadron of helicopters.

Before on arms of our aviation group in Armenia the squadron of fighters MiG-29, carrying out fighting problems of antiaircraft defense in interests of the CIS air defense incorporated system consisted. With the advent of here army aircraft – helicopters Mi-24P, Mi-8МТ and Mi-8СМВ – possibilities of cover of important objects from air Continue reading →

The commander of the MI-8 helicopter, the message on which loss appeared earlier on Saturday, told that 11 passengers of the aircraft managed to escape when falling in the sea, reports "Interfax". The destiny of other passengers remains to the unknown.

«According to the commander onboard the helicopter there were 16 people, 11 of them managed to escape, the destiny of the others while remains to the unknown», – is told in the message, which agency received from the Ministry of Emergency Continue reading →

In the Leningrad region the personal helicopter of the general director of one of the Petersburg firms is found, on a place of crash bodies of two victims are found.

About it on Sunday reports ITAR-TASS referring to the chief of Northwest management of Rosaviation Oleg Grinko.

Fragments of the broken helicopter are found in the boggy district about the settlement Rakhya of the Vsevolozhsk area. As it was reported before, besides Vasilyev, onboard the helicopter there could be one more person. Continue reading →

Demand for civil helicopters in the world is reduced

The world market of civil helicopters continues to be reduced. Decline in demand is in many respects caused by reduction of prices of oil and political conflicts. However, the greatest effect renders a natural turnover cycle of world fleets, analysts are sure, and its peak already passed.

Demand for civil helicopters in the world market is reduced. The tendency which began in 2014, proceeded and this year. Following the results of last year Continue reading →

Five days later after a crash of helicopter of Mi-8 in Murmansk region clarities in that, why large regional officials and businessmen went to flight, still not.

Let’s remind: the Mi-8 helicopter belonging to JSC SPARK avia, broke on May 31 at Munozer’s coast in the Tersky region of Murmansk region.

According to the investigation, the helicopter took off about eight evenings from the airport Apatity, landed around the Heel camp on the river Varzuga, took aboard some more people and departed Continue reading →

The head of the Ural investigatory management on transport of SK of Russia Dmitry Putintsev declared that the Mi-8 helicopter of the UTair airline which has failed in Congo, according to preliminary data, was wrecked because of a mistake of the pilot.

«Across Congo we come to a conclusion that as a result of climatic conditions there was an error of piloting», – he told, reports RIA Novosti news agency.

The Russian Mi-8 helicopter broke in Congo in March. The helicopter carried out Shabund’s Continue reading →

China started development of the new assault helicopter of the fourth generation which should arrive on arms of army of China by 2020, the China Daily newspaper with the reference Aviation Industry Corp of China (AVIC) writes.

China confirmed for the first time that develops the helicopter of new generation. The company published information on the helicopter in the media brochure on opened on Wednesday in Tianjin to an exhibition of helicopters.

Whether head of AVIC Tszomin noted that the Continue reading →

Russia will offer the helicopters created for "Mistrals" to Egypt if Cairo makes the decision on acquisition of these helicopter carriers at France, "Rostekh’s" general director Sergey Chemezov told to journalists.

"If Egypt after all makes the decision to get "Mistrals", of course, we will offer our helicopters as they were adapted and were created under this ship", – he told on Wednesday to journalists at Kalashnikov concern visit.

Chemezov added that Continue reading →