Fire! Russia Wants to Invest in Heavy-Attack Helicopters
The Mi-28NM made its maiden flight in late 2016 and underwent state trials for the past several years.
While Russia’s fighter jets continue to command outsized attention from defense analysts, the Kremlin is quietly making strides in a different type of military aircraft: heavy-attack helicopters.
The latest iteration of the Soviet-era Mil Mi-28 attack helicopter, the upcoming Mi-28NM is packed with cutting-edge features and design concepts. In a lengthy interview with Russian state news outlet TASS, the project’s lead designer Vitaly Shcherbina said the Mi-28NM will revolutionize Russia’s heavy attack helicopter roster: “We can say that the Mi-28NM is quite a different helicopter both by the ideology of its employment and the technologies integrated into its design, and it can be rightly called a next-generation or breakthrough helicopter compared to the baseline version,” he noted.
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