The President listened to the report of the CEO of the Russian Helicopters holding. Andrey Boginsky spoke about working with China on a heavy helicopter. "In 2008, the discussion of this project with our Chinese comrades began," the head of the holding said. "A heavy helicopter?" - Vladimir Putin clarified.
"Helicopter, yes," the interlocutor replied and recalled that back in 2016, during Putin's visit to Beijing, an intergovernmental agreement was signed. Intensive negotiations have been going on since 2008, and a contract was signed on June 25 of this year, he said.
"We will develop only a part of the units - it will be a transmission, a tail rotor and an anti-icing system, plus pumping the resource for this helicopter," the speaker said. "The project is quite large, for about 13 years," he said.
Kira Latukhina
