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US Strategy Page website on May 26 entitled "Pakistani helicopter gunships receive a gift from China," the report said, Pakistan received three WZ -10 helicopter.
It reported that three armed helicopters allegedly is China gave Pakistan a gift in advance, in order to bar the trial as soon as possible, a move that seems to contribute to Pakistan ordered 17 WZ-10. Pakistan will also receive two WZ -10 year-end. US media commented that this will be the first overseas sales customers of this helicopter gunships.
It reported that China since the 1990s has been developing seven tons of WZ -10 helicopter. In 2010, the number of prototypes to test aviation field, to improve a number of issues in 2012, and volume production. WZ -10 with a 23 mm caliber cannon, there are four mount points, and can carry 16 Red Arrow -10 fiber-guided missiles (similar to the "Hellfire" missiles), or a greater number of rockets. At the same time, China also smaller (4.5 tons) of Wu straight -19 Armed / reconnaissance helicopter production.
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Warplanes: Pakistan Receives The Gift Of Gunship From China
May 25, 2015: Pakistan has apparently received the first three of twenty Chinese WZ-10 helicopter gunships. Pictures of two of them together have appeared. These first three were announced as a gift and were quickly delivered so Pakistan could try them out. This appears to have led to an order for 17 more. Or not, as the WZ-10 sale has been kept quiet. If Pakistan does buy 17 more WZ-10s it would be the first export customer. The sale is apparently a done deal as Pakistan is to receive two more WZ-10s by the end of the year.
China has been developing the 7 ton WZ-10 helicopter gunship since the 1990s. After 14 years of development there were several prototypes and a lot of unresolved problems. Attempts to buy or steal helicopter gunship technology from Russia and South Africa failed. In 2010 some of the prototypes were sent to Chinese Army aviation units for field testing. While not a failure, there were problems and at one point the WZ-10 was in danger of being abandoned. The Chinese persevered and fixed most of the defects by 2012 and put WZ-10 into production. The WZ-10 is armed with an autocannon (23mm to 30mm) and has four hard points that can carry 16 HJ10 laser guided missiles (similar to Hellfire) or even more unguided rockets.
Meanwhile China also put the smaller (4.5 ton) WZ-19 armed scout helicopter into production, partly as a backup if the WZ-10 failed. China wanted something more like the American AH-64 Apache and the WZ-10 was equipped to operate like the AH-64 or earlier AH-1 (which Pakistan has been using for a long time). The WZ-19 has been spotted in the air since 2010 and by 2012 was seen painted in military colors, meaning it was out of development and in service. The WZ-19 was earlier known as the Z-9W. The WZ-19 is yet another Chinese helicopter based on the Eurocopter Dauphin (which has been built under license in China since the 1990s. The WZ-19 is a 4.5 ton, two seat armed helicopter. It can carry a 23mm autocannon and up to a ton of munitions (missiles, usually). Cruising speed is 245 kilometers an hour and range is 700 kilometers. The WZ-19 is basically an upgraded Z-9W.
