Russian Military Still Funding High-Speed Rotorcraft
Debut of Mi-24 testbed at MAKS; full development machine to follow in 2018
For the first time, the Mil design bureau at MAKS'2015 exhibited an Mi-24 being used as a test-bed for the technologies needed to develop a high-speed helicopter.
For the first time, the Mil design bureau at MAKS'2015 exhibited an Mi-24 being used as a test-bed for the technologies needed to develop a high-speed helicopter.

Although the Russian Ministry for Industry and Trade has stopped funding research into high-speed rotorcraft for commercial applications, the country's Ministry of Defence has not lost interest. At the MAKS’2015 show in Moscow earlier this month, the commander of the Russian Air-and-Space-Force Lt. Gen. Victor Bondarev said that work on a rotorcraft that could achieve 270 knots in level flight was proceeding “full speed ahead.” And for the first time the Mil design bureau exhibited a Mi-24 being used as a test-bed for the required technologies.


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