Asia Trading Post -- cooperates direct with helicopter factories  in Russia. We  coordinate with foreign aviation companies and businessmen.  We can offer you the Russian helicopters Mi-8T, Mi-8MTV (Mi-17), Mi-34, Mi-26, Ka-32, Ka-26.You can buy from us both new helicopters and helicopters after restoration. We can also assemble  helicopters you order.

We sell used and new Russian helicopters & deliver direct to you or you collect.  All NEW helicopter sales we invite you to visit our manufacturing  helicopter factory.

We can deliver to you via heavy lift plane to your country. We accept applications for repairs and sales of your helicopters.

MI- 8T:  RUSSIAN HELICOPTER SALES

The Mi-8 is  the most famous of Russian helicopters, and around 12,000 Mi-8's were built. It is one of the most successful helicopters of the Soviet air industry.24 June 2005 1ill marked the forty four years since the first prototype V-8 flew  and  exported to over 60 countries. It has outlived its maker Mikhail Leontievich Mil (1909-1970). The Mi-8 is a turbine-engined derived from the Mi-4 'Hound' for civil & military applications and first flew in 1961 in its 'Hip A' prototype form with a four-blade main rotor powered by a 2,012 kW ( 2,700shp) Soloviev turboshaft. It was replaced by the 'Hip-B' prototype with a five blade main rotor and two Isotov TV2-117 turboshafts. The first production model was the 'Hip-C' that introduced Doppler navigation and provision for heavy armament used in the defence roles. After the first prototype, the second had two TV2-117 turboshafts (1962) and a new five blade main rotor (installed in 1963) and finally came the start of the series production in 1965 first only at Kazan and five years later in Ulan-Ude. The Mi-8 is an excellent assault and utility transport helicopter and, is still built in its upgraded Mi-17 form with an uprated powerplant of two 1,454 kW ( 1950 shp ) TV3-117MT turboshafts. Russia's armed forces stopped ordering the  Mi-8 in 1990 and the production became dependent on foreign customers.  Modification from Kazan saw the Mi-17MD feature: meteo-radar, an integrated system of radio-communication and navigation, GPS, Nightvision, HDD etc. The Ulan-Ude factory yearly output is still far from that of the  1980's when 30 helicopters were produced monthly.

Specifications Powerplant: two 1,270 kW (1,703 shp) Isotov TV2-117A turboshafts Dimensions:length 25.24 m ( 82ft 9.5in); height 5.65m ( 18ft 6.5 in ); main rotor diameter 29.29m ( 69 ft 10.5 in ) Weights:take-off ('clean') 11,100 kg (24,470 lb ); MTOW 12,000 kg ( 26,455 lb ) Performance: max level speed at 1,000 m (3,280 ft ) 260 km/h ( 161 mph ); service ceiling 4,500 m ( 14, 760 ft ) Armament: this is carried on two outriggers extending from the fuselage sides, and comprises four launchers each carrying 32.55mm ( 2.17 in) rockets.More than 12,000 Mi-8 (NATO codename Hip) multi-purpose helicopters have been produced, with more than 2,800 exported, and they are operational with over 50 air forces worldwide. The Mi-8 can carry up to 36(Mi-8MTV-5) troops, weapons (Mi-8MTV) such as UB-16,UB-32,Falanga Anti-tank missiles, used in combat for the first time in the Middle east during 1973-74 by Syria & the Mi-8MTs were used in Afghanistan, along with Mi-17's. They have also been used in  Angola, Chad, Mozambique, and Nicaragua and between Iraq and Iran, Ethiopia and Somalia, India and Pakistan, Peru and Ecuador, and in former Yugoslavia.

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