The Mi17V5 helicopter, which smashed with Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) Bipin Rawat and 13 others installed on Wednesday, is a high level military vehicle chopper that has been with the Indian Air Force (IAF) beginning around 2012.
Fabricated by Russian Helicopters' auxiliary Kazan, the helicopter has a locally available climate radar and is furnished with the most recent age of night vision gadgets.
It likewise has the new PKV-8 autopilot framework and a KNEI-8 flight suite. It can steal a most extreme important point weight of 13,000 kg and greatest payload weight of 4,000 kg.
India had in 2008 marked an arrangement with Russia to accept 80 Mi17V5 medium lift helicopters for fortifying its chopper armada for philanthropic and debacle alleviation missions and transport tasks.
The agreement was subsequently extended for conveyance of 151 Mi17V5 helicopters.
The primary clump of these helicopters came to India in September 2011.
In February 2012, the IAF had officially Mi17V5 helicopters from Russia to improve its functional abilities including conveying troops and freight to high height regions.
The helicopter is fitted with a self-preservation framework against heat searcher rockets, intensely reinforced cockpit, imperative frameworks and parts.
"The Mi-17V-5 military vehicle helicopter is intended to convey staff, freight and gear inside the freight lodge or on an outside sling, drop strategic air attack powers and surveillance and harm gatherings, obliterate ground targets and convey the injured," said Russian government's guard trades organization Rosoboronexport.
As indicated by the organization, this helicopter can accomplish a greatest speed of 250 km each hour.
The helicopter is fitted with cutting edge TV3-117VM motors.
It is the most actually progressed helicopter of Mi-8/17 group of helicopters, and fuses the best designing arrangements from past ages of helicopters.
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