Yuri Slyusar
about UAC tasks
and prospects
[p.16]
SSJ100
output on the rise
[p.20, 30]
Yak-152
new flying desk
for Air Force pilots
[p.26]
Made for India & Make in India
february 2015 • Special edition for Aero India 2015
The first production-standard
upgraded Mi-26T2 heavylift helicopter
began its test programme
at Rostvertol JSC, a subsidiary of
the Russian Helicopters holding
company, in Rostov-on-Don late in
December 2014. The machine has a
peculiar ‘desert’ camouflage pattern,
which implies that the helicopter is
intended for export.
According to Rostvertol’s annual
report published last summer, the
first export contract for six Mi-26T2s
for Algeria was made on 26 June
2013. Before that, in July 2012,
a Mi-26T2 prototype (serial 901),
which had been undergoing tests
since early 2011, visited the country
with a demonstration flight programme.
The key difference setting the
Mi-26T2 from the productionstandard
Mi-26 and Mi-26T/TC is
its advanced digital avionics suite
that has allowed slashing the flying
crew from four to two (from five to
three, if the external cargo sling is
used) and simultaneously improved
reliability, flight safety, helicopter’s
stability, controllability and hover
precision, which is especially important
when using the external sling.
The BREO-26 avionics suite of
the upgraded Mi-26T2 is based on
the NPK-90-2 flight navigation system
comprising the digital display
system, control panels, airborne
computer, satellite navigation system
and digital flight system. In
addition, the Mi-26T2’s avionics
incorporates an up-to-date communications
system and an airborne
flight recorder system.
Just like its baseline model, the
Mi-26T2 can haul outsize cargo and
vehicles weighing a total of 20 t
in the cargo hold or at the external
sling. Its military version carries
82 troops and casevac variant airlifts
60 casualties. The machine can perform
installation and construction
work of varying degrees of complexity,
fire-fighting missions, quick fuel
delivery, self-contained refuelling of
vehicles on the ground, etc.
India to receive 150 Mi-17V-5 helicopters by year end