Russian Helicopters to Participate in ARMY-2017 International Military-Technical Forum

To present the newest line of military helicopters for potential operators from the Russian and foreign security services

The Russian Helicopters holding (part of Rostec State Corporation) will demonstrate a wide range of military helicopters at the International military-technical forum ARMY-2017 that began on August 22 at the congress exhibition center of Patriot in the city of Kubinka.

As part of the exhibition, the holding will present its products for the first time at the permanent exposition of Russian Helicopters with the total area of about 400 square meters organized within the framework of the demo center of Rostec State Corporation. Models of the helicopters Mi-26T2, Мi-28NE, Мi-38, Ка-52К, Ansat, Мi-8АМТSh-VА, Мi-35М, and the VRT30 unmanned convertiplane will be displayed at the stall of the holding.

Full-scale samples of the equipment produced by the holding will be exhibited at the static exposition of the Patriot center. Participants and visitors of the exhibition will be able to look at the Mi-38, Mi-17V-5, Ansat, Mi-35M, Mi-28NE, and Ka-52K helicopters.

Moreover, in the closed access demonstration zone the Russian Helicopters holding will present the latest military transport helicopter Mi-8AMTSh-V for the first time, modernized in accordance with the experience of helicopters used in Syria. Mi-8AMTSh-V is promoted as multifunctional and can execute a wide range of tasks that include transportation and landing to fire support of special forces.

“At the Army-2017 forum the holding is presenting the newest line of military helicopters for potential operators from the Russian and foreign security services,” said the director general of the Russian Helicopters, Andrew Boginsky. He further said, “At this venue we will be able to discuss with our colleague from the ministry of defence of the Russian Federation all the issues of existing contracts implementation and the possibilities of drawing up new ones. Besides, military institutions of our foreign partners will be widely represented at the forum”.

The management and the experts are also scheduled to hold a range of meetings and talks at the Army-2017 with Russian and foreign helicopter operators. They will discuss, in particular, the prospects of supplying multirole helicopters for the armed forces of the CSTO countries. The signing of several agreements is also planned, including with the ministry of defence of the Russian Federation and with the Russian weapon and military equipment manufacturers.

The exhibition will end on August 27.