{"id":198225,"date":"2007-11-30T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/30\/french-evaluate-mi-26-as-heavy-lift-helicopter\/"},"modified":"2007-11-30T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T05:20:00","slug":"french-evaluate-mi-26-as-heavy-lift-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/30\/french-evaluate-mi-26-as-heavy-lift-helicopter\/","title":{"rendered":"French Evaluate Mi-26 as Heavy Lift Helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French are looking at ultra-heavy lift capability, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Af7521e02-8ceb-468b-9cab-c929279d3766\">so they had some crews operating the Halo for a few weeks<\/a> to see the potential tactical applications.<\/p>\n<p>If they were smart, the would buy Russian, either the Mi-26, or the successor that the Russians purportedly have in the works, because both solutions will be much cheaper than a from the ground up solution.<\/p>\n<p>The Russians have been the only people doing these size helicopters for 40 years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_8Psnm0b0g1E\/R1Bq5w_A0fI\/AAAAAAAAAMI\/J4nDbM18lvM\/s400\/mi26.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French are looking at ultra-heavy lift capability, so they had some crews operating the Halo for a few weeks to see the potential tactical applications. If they were smart, the would buy Russian, either the Mi-26, or the successor that the Russians purportedly have in the works, because both solutions will be much cheaper &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198225"}],"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=198225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}