What you peoples think about The New Mi-38 highest-automated helicopter in the world ?
Tass In a news written about a statement of Yuriy Borisov, Also yesterday a new thread on the forum is started about it "Russia’s Mi-28 Attack Helicopter to Get Laser Missile Defense Gear "
Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said previously that the contract on the supply of the Mi-38 helicopters for Russia’s Aerospace Forces is planned to be concluded in 2017.
The Mi-38 is regarded as the highest-automated helicopter in the world. Its attitude and heading reference system allows automatic en-route flying, landing, hovering and stabilization in any flight mode. Its IBKO-38 integrated avionics suite provides the crew with as much quality information as necessary for very high flight safety.
At the moment, the Mi-38 helicopter can be used for the transportation of cargoes and passengers, as a search and rescue helicopter and a flying hospital. This aircraft occupies a niche between the Mi-8/17 helicopters and the Mi-26 heavy helicopters. According to Russian Helicopters, the Mi-38 carrying capacity of 5-6 tons, the helicopter can carry up to 30 passengers.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry
"The first deliveries for the Russian Defense Ministry are planned for 2018, the civil version (deliveries) are tentatively scheduled also for late 2018 - early 2019", he said.
The official said that there are two versions of this helicopter: the civil, which got the basic certificate, and the transport model, which is planned to be supplied for the Russian Defense Ministry. According to him, they differ in the configuration of some helicopter systems.
Bugakov said that the helicopter version for the Defense Ministry will be almost 100% manufactured with Russian components. "Mi-38 will be supplied for the Russian Defense Ministry with the domestic fuel system, it will be almost 100% made of Russian components", he said. According to him, the helicopter’s military version will have only a few imported elements of the onboard equipment, which are expected to be replaced with domestically produced ones.
According to him, the civil Mi-38 version to date has more than 90% Russian components. "The helicopter uses a French fuel system and imported avionics components", the official said."
There is talk about its testing and some peoples are expecting to see it in action at the Syria war ? As per the Mi-38 its automated system make it a very powerful and unique helicopter in Russian Army wing.
As per me S-500 Missiles system is the worlds latest defense system to defuse opponents attack. We are hearing about this system from past two years, As per a rummer on news paper its saying that the system is initially tested in Syria war, But there is not any official announcements about it. The official announcements still say its coming in near future or at the end of 2018. Most of there powerful systems are coming in 2018. Looks Russia is hoping too much till 2018. I am very keen to see this system in action also as per expectations USA is also coming with such defense system till 2017 or late 2018. Soon we will heard that s-500 is old now lets plan S-600