{"id":189910,"date":"2010-01-30T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/30\/russia-looks-to-joint-venture-with-chinese-for-mi-26-successor\/"},"modified":"2010-01-30T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T15:36:00","slug":"russia-looks-to-joint-venture-with-chinese-for-mi-26-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/30\/russia-looks-to-joint-venture-with-chinese-for-mi-26-successor\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Looks to Joint Venture With Chinese for Mi-26 Successor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Proposed Mi-46<\/span><\/div>\n

The Russians make the largest production helicopter in the world, the Mi-26 “Halo”, and they have been considering an updated helo in the same (humongous) size range for some time.<\/p>\n

Now, it appears that they are looking to do a joint venture with the Chinese to develope a 20T payload class helicopter<\/a>. (paid subscription required<\/span>)<\/p>\n

Seeing as how the helicopter originally flew in 1977, and has been in service since 1983, there is a lot of room for improvement.<\/p>\n

Just updating the transmission to modern aluminum alloys in the transmission and going with a more modern rotor system would probably add about 10% to payload and range performance, but that would be an upgrade rather than a completely new design.<\/p>\n

A completely new variant might be based on the canceled Mi-46, though that was about a 12 tonne class machine.<\/p>\n

I think that the reason for a joint venture has more to do with a potential market, they want to sell to the Chinese, than it does to any real technical or development advantage that they might gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click for full size Proposed Mi-46 The Russians make the largest production helicopter in the world, the Mi-26 “Halo”, and they have been considering an updated helo in the same (humongous) size range for some time. Now, it appears that they are looking to do a joint venture with the Chinese to develope a 20T …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1005,1226,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-business","category-helicopters","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}