Mi-8T helicopters officially decommissioned in India

According to Indian media reports, 17 December 2017 of the year at the Yelahank airbase near Bangalore took place the solemn ceremony of withdrawing the last Soviet-made helicopter Mi-8T (Indian designation Prahar) from the Indian Air Force. The 112 Helicopter Unit deployed in Yelahanka was the last part of the Indian Air Force to operate these helicopters. Now only helicopters of the Mi-112 series (Indian designation Rana) remained in operation in the Indian Air Force.

The ceremony was attended by the former commander of the Indian Air Force Marshal aviation Fali Homi Major, who made a flight during the ceremony on the last Mi-8T helicopter in Indian aviation (Indian military number Z2453), as well as Air Force Marshal Radha Krishnan Nair, commander of the Indian Air Force training command. Air Marshal Nair in his speech noted the outstanding role of the Mi-8T in the Indian Air Force during the 45-year period of operation of this helicopter.

India received a total of X-NUMX helicopters of the Mi-1971T series from 1988 to 124 from the USSR, of which 8 was operated by the Indian Air Force. The Mi-107T helicopters were in service with ten Indian Air Force helicopter units and began to be removed from the Indian Air Force from the middle of the 8-ies, being eventually completely replaced with Mi-2000B-17 helicopters received from Russia.

Deliveries of Mi-17 series helicopters to India were launched in 1986 year.

Comments

[Karakut]

You can’t understand their rich ....

[RASKAT]

Let's buy them back at the price of scrap metal, repair them and sell them to some Uganda, Congo or Chad. 100 helicopters quite a large batch can make good money.

[newcomer]

they would rather send them to storage.

[210ox]

In fact .. Why is the Indian a helicopter .. He already has a piece of screw on his head .... In the photo ..

[mig29mks]

these are fighting males !!!! they need helicopters !!!

[LSA57]

Quote: 210ox

He already has a piece of screw on his head .... In the photo ..

it is a tail rotor. he is small, hard to sell

[dauria]

You can’t understand their rich ....

What to understand? We have developed a resource, and here they are exchanging for new ones. The same. but with VK-2500 engines (according to the parameters of the Soviet TV3-117). Our back in the early 80's their "teshki" to "MTeshki" began to change. And in the mountains an extra thousand horses with the same weight oh as needed.

[Mih1974]

Do you just eat in your head or do you think she’s still? What could be worked out there: engines - to change, avionics - to modernize, tires "for winter" - we will change. There are bombers on mattresses, B-52 BOMBERS are still flying and will fly (all will not be broken ), and here helicopters - yes you can upgrade "before the second coming." Especially for the replacement of the very same Mi-8 .
Not a specialist, but I can smell it in my heart - it’s much cheaper to get just a deep modernization. And on the "remnants" of more helicopters (new) you can buy.

[dok123]

Well, now this board will serve for some eleven years in some airline of our airline ...
And cho, apparently still nothing ...

[svp67]

Well, that "bee" leaves ... The legendary car.

[Pirogov]

Quote: svp67

Well, that "bee" leaves ... The legendary car.

What are they leaving in the production of modifications of the Mi-8AMTSh, Mi-8AMT, Mi-8MTV. And the Indians can see the mattresses decided to lick.

[newcomer]

let me insert five cents. where does it “lick” if all 8s are changed to 17th?

[Pirogov]

Quote: newbie

let me insert five cents. where does it “lick” if all 8s are changed to 17th?

Despite the fact that India has already ordered Apache helicopters, Chinook transport helicopters from the USA.

[Jedi]

Apache is a purely military rotorcraft, Chinook is a purely transport helicopter. And Mi-8 and its late derivatives?

[newcomer]

yes to health, maybe choking. Heard about these contracts. but for some reason the whole park 8 is changed to 17. what is this talking about?

[Sergey53]

Quote: newbie

let me insert five cents. where does it “lick” if all 8s are changed to 17th?

They will not be exchanged for Mi-17, they have already been exchanged for Mi-17 B5. Read carefully.

[newcomer]

Well, the last one with honors just left, a couple of hours wrong in time. is it so important for you? the meaning of the topic is not when, but what’s what. by the way, if it’s so important, the yacht wrote change, I wrote change.

[svp67]

Quote: Pirogov

And the Indians can see the mattresses decided to lick.

The article clearly states that they are changing them on the Mi-17.

[CAPTIVE]

Quote: Pirogov

What are they leaving in the production of modifications of the Mi-8AMTSh, Mi-8AMT, Mi-8MTV. And the Indians can see the mattresses decided to lick.

And not only mattresses ..! They will now begin to "steam" electronic super robots .. Brilliant and very beautiful! At military parades, they will show off with Pakistan at the borders .. heh heh ..
DB is shorter ..!

[SergF123]

The production of MI-8 of various modifications, as it was, is in Ulan-Ude and Kazan!

[Incvizitor]

Well, their business, they will buy instead of good helicopters whatever fashionable but useless trash ...

[newcomer]

it is gratifying that 8ku is changed to 17th. because Indians are unpredictable.

[Jedi]

Garik, hi! These hitans still spoil the blood, you have no doubt.

[newcomer]

Maxim, with a cheerful evening! not well about spoil then they are specialists. and not only blood.

[Jedi]

You correctly understood what I hinted at. It would be easier to blame the Russians than to admit their own handicap. Plus, the Americans are already friends with them, and this implies ...

[newcomer]

yes Max, in the continuation and development of your thought: a week, or a half and a half ago, I read on the contour an excerpt from an Indian magazine about 5th generation aircraft. interest is not in the text itself, but in the captions under the photo. under tejas it says “deadly fighter”; under f22 "such a plane"; f35 “the future lies with him. and the highlight of the parade: T50 "such a plane"; FGFA “prototype based on T50, but Indian scientists (!) Made 43 changes, which made it the best ..” and so on and so forth. Here is such a people.

[Jedi]

The brain is disconnected from peacock conceit, and the USA will support this state with its actions.

[newcomer]

for sure, a peacock will always remain a peacock, that is, a chicken.

[Jedi]

Garik, this is so. But in some places they do not want to understand this. They will understand, but it will be too late.

[newcomer]

oh oh there is such a thing.

[Jedi]

Quote: Jedi

Throw Indians, and Russia will forgive and understand?

That's what is sad ...

[newcomer]

yes yes max. and we will forgive them, because our defense industry needs money.

[Jedi]

Quote: newbie

we will forgive them, because our defense industry needs money.

Not everything is measured in money, buddy. And not everything can be bought for money ...

[newcomer]

I agree. but we will tolerate them until we can make such a technique as SU57 on our own.

[tol100v]

Quote: Jedi

and the United States will support this state with its actions.

A striped fox can flatter! Yes, and give bribes, too. An example of this is the study of our submarine!

[Jedi]

This is not a fox, but a skunk. Throw Indians, and Russia will forgive and understand?

[In100gram]

The ceremony in the style of the Indians. Cool hang . There is gunpowder in the flasks. And helicopter carting too . Indians love colorful holidays.

[Sargas]

Their pilots are the elite! Just the same local brahmanas in the warrior caste.

[Hey]

At one time, information slipped that India was ready to transfer helicopters to Afghanistan for free. Perhaps these helicopters were meant.

[CAPTIVE]

I will be sorry for the Indians, in case of a serious mess .. Buddha and m to help!

[Sargas]

Do not bzdi. Indians, unlike the Chinese, have deep traditions of military feat, military pride, etc.
Have you heard the word sepoy? Britons used to urinate boiling water from him ...

And of course, the deepest traditions of "I'm not to blame!".
Gypsies from India came out, expelled that tribe. Did not know?

[Mih1974]

Only they, and the Chinese, have a bad habit of "thinking what they think" . Remember the story how - in India began to crumble aircraft almost immediately after repair? The brahmanas then charged the dance with rhinestones - the Russians were to blame, our “polite” proposal “to stop smoking and dancing and calmly sorted out”, howled even more, and after a year (when they really got it right), the internal investigation started an almost “public beating” "for a" brilliant "idea - to put instead of two new engines One new and one old . Many of our “birds” did not bear such rudeness and “committed suicide” on the inhospitable Indian land.
I don’t want to remember about their “AbroRzhun”, with our right hand “we are the most in tank building and our fighting elephants, pah - tanks, the most colorful (and probably dancing”), and the left (not shouting) zealously stuffed the warehouses with our normal tanks
And about the flirting with the matars - in vain they are, and with the French - they’ll cry even more, I’m especially worried about how the “sensitive” Western technique will behave in the hands of such “karmic believers” as Indians . It’s about the fact that Abrams is extremely picky about service and fuel - I read it, but we’ll see how quickly the Amer helicopters and Jabojor planes “take a break” in the harsh conditions of India.

[Eurodav]

Ah, how beautiful they are, these fighting Indian people !!! And you immediately forget that in the courtyard is the 21st century and there is a computer in front of you !!! They need to be invited to children's parties, to entertain the kids with their looks !!!

[turbris]

They do it right and do it, it is necessary to remove the spent equipment from the armament in time - this affects the accident rate. Over there, the An-2 again crashed, because someone admits such aircraft to fly, what kind of resource can there be? Criminals are simple.

[Mikhail Zubkov]

An-2 fresh after FACTORY repair and remotorization on an American proprietary engine, with the restoration of the resource of a glider, etc. less than 3 years ago. The fault of the technicians in place, most likely, the engine failure on take-off. But the pilots could be mistaken. And with the Indian discarded turntables we no longer have to bother, we have hundreds of them standing "on the bill."

[Conductor]

What kind of malicious punks are they)))

[Piramidon]

Most of all I liked the techie in the photo, hurrying to pre-flight training

[Sands Careers General]

Well, of course, to hell with helicopters, there’s a cockscomb in the soldier’s photo, they don’t even need weapons, the enemy will die of laughter))

They wrote off - let them return to Russia, there they will find use for helicopters.

[weksha50]

Hmm ... Solemnly drove in a circle and hung above the ground ...
For me - it was so lacking a bunch of gymnasts-acrobats on tanks and chassis ... Well - songs, songs, songs ...
PS I still do not understand - why do they need such a powerful army? They will crush any army with mass and song cries ...