Mi-1, the first serial-produced helicopter The first Soviet serial-produced rotorcraft was initially called the Mil helicopter-1. It performed its debut flight in 1948 and went into service in ...

In the mid-1960s they even started work on converting the Mil Mi-6 — the USSR’s largest and fastest helicopter — to carry paying passengers. Unfortunately this never got past a single ...

The Mil Mi-24 was designed to do one thing ... they became the icon of the Soviet war there (much as the UH-1 Iroquois “Huey” helicopter was emblematic of the American intervention in the ...

such as the behemoth Mil V-12 helicopter, the largest helicopter in history. This large aircraft, which could carry 105 tons, first began with OKB-329’s Mi V-6. Their mission was to create a ...

GTLK will supply two Mi-8MTV-1 helicopters to the Kolyma Aviation enterprise under the NWF project. The leasing contracts were signed as part of the GTLK investment project to upgrade the Russian ...

Analysis of open-source data suggests Russia lost over 100 attack helicopters during the first two years of the Ukraine war, a study carried out by a NATO agency has concluded.

JSC State Transport Leasing Company (STLC) has leased five Mi-8MTV-1 helicopters. The machines were manufactured by the Russian Helicopters holding company of the Rostec State Corporation for the ...