In the last days of August, a joint tactical and specialised exercise of medical personnel and army aviation crews was held at Pushkin airfield, in Leningrad Region. The training, organized by the Western Military District […]
Russian Helicopters holding and the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation have signed a contract for delivery of yet undisclosed number of modernized Ka-52M attack helicopters. The agreement was signed this week, during the […]
The final, international phase of this year´s International Air Crew Training Competition ´Aviadarts-2021´ was officially opened yesterday, on 22nd August 2021. As usual, the live-fly part of the contest is held at Dubrovichi training ground, […]
Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant, being a part of the Russian Helicopters holding, had recently delivered the second Mi-8AMT multipurpose helicopter to Kolyma Aviation state-owned company. Similarly as in the case of the first rotorcraft, delivered in […]
A joint Russian-Chinese operational and strategic exercise Sibu/Interaction 2021 (Russian: Сибу/Взаимодействие–2021, Chinese: 西部·联合-2021) was successfully concluded last week in China. That training was considered to be another milestone of the military cooperation between those countries, […]
On 10th August 2021, at Harb-Maidon training area in Tajikistan, the main stage of joint Russian-Tajik-Uzbek exercise was launched. That military training of motorized rifle units from all the three participating countries, supported by artillery […]
At the end of July 2021, Vitaly Markelov, Deputy Chairman of ´Gazprom’ Management Committee and Andrey Boginsky, Director General of ‘Russian Helicopters’ holding have signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement for supply of the first Russian-made […]
6 August 1941 – night-ramming of a German Heinkel He 111 bomber by V.V. Talalikhin. Viktor Vasilevich Talalikhin (Виктор Васильевич Талалихин) was born on 18th September 1918 in Tepolvka village, near Saratov. In 1934, his […]
In July of this year, Russian Helicopters holding (part of Rostec State Corporation) and Russian Post has concluded an agreement in regard to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for delivering cargo within the Chukotka Autonomous District. […]
In the last days of July, helicopter crews of the Leningrad Army of the Air Force and Air Defence were deployed to combat forest fires in Karelia. Mi-8 helicopters equipped with water buckets, being a […]
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