Ukroboronprom announced the restoration of 14 helicopters
Yesterday, the Ukroboronprom concern published a message stating that “in the first quarter of 2016, specialists from the Konotop Aircraft Repair Plant Aviakon State Enterprise, which is part of the concern, repaired and modernized 14 Mi family helicopters,” the blog reports. bmpd.
Presumably, a prototype of the Mi-24PU2 combat helicopter, modernized by the State Enterprise Konotop Aircraft Repair Plant Aviakon, 2016.
Seven helicopters were repaired for the Ukrainian Armed Forces and seven more for a foreign customer (probably for Algeria).
“The main task of Aviakon is timely and high-quality repair of helicopters for the needs of the armed forces of Ukraine. And he did a great job with it in the first quarter. Moreover, he restored equipment under foreign contracts,” the press service quotes the general director of the concern, Roman Romanov.
“It is interesting that the press release is accompanied by a photograph, presumably, of a prototype of a modernized combat helicopter according to the Mi-24PU2 variant. This is the first published photograph of the Mi-24PU2 prototype in flight, from which we can conclude that in the first quarter of 2016, the Konotop Plant was finally able to complete work on this prototype and handed it over for flight testing,” says bmpd in a commentary .
According to the blogger, “the Mi-24PU2 program (the so-called “second stage” of the Ukrainian project for the modernization of Mi-24 series helicopters) refers to the “long-term construction” of the Ukrainian defense industry: initially the Mi-24PU2 (as opposed to the “transitional” version of the “first stage” modernization of the Mi-24PU1) was created as a modernization project for round-the-clock use and was to be equipped primarily with new on-board equipment from the French company Sagem (Safran group), and the armament was to include the Barrier-V anti-tank missile system developed by the State Kyiv Design Bureau "Luch" "".
It is noted that “The Mi-24PU2 prototype began to be converted from the Mi-24P helicopter at the Aviakon plant back in 2011, but the work was delayed due to difficulties in integrating the “board” and insufficient funding.”
Seven helicopters were repaired for the Ukrainian Armed Forces and seven more for a foreign customer (probably for Algeria).
“The main task of Aviakon is timely and high-quality repair of helicopters for the needs of the armed forces of Ukraine. And he did a great job with it in the first quarter. Moreover, he restored equipment under foreign contracts,” the press service quotes the general director of the concern, Roman Romanov.
“It is interesting that the press release is accompanied by a photograph, presumably, of a prototype of a modernized combat helicopter according to the Mi-24PU2 variant. This is the first published photograph of the Mi-24PU2 prototype in flight, from which we can conclude that in the first quarter of 2016, the Konotop Plant was finally able to complete work on this prototype and handed it over for flight testing,” says bmpd in a commentary .
According to the blogger, “the Mi-24PU2 program (the so-called “second stage” of the Ukrainian project for the modernization of Mi-24 series helicopters) refers to the “long-term construction” of the Ukrainian defense industry: initially the Mi-24PU2 (as opposed to the “transitional” version of the “first stage” modernization of the Mi-24PU1) was created as a modernization project for round-the-clock use and was to be equipped primarily with new on-board equipment from the French company Sagem (Safran group), and the armament was to include the Barrier-V anti-tank missile system developed by the State Kyiv Design Bureau "Luch" "".
It is noted that “The Mi-24PU2 prototype began to be converted from the Mi-24P helicopter at the Aviakon plant back in 2011, but the work was delayed due to difficulties in integrating the “board” and insufficient funding.”
- SC "Ukroboronprom"
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