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Mil Mi-17
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family of Russian military transport helicopters
Key facts
- Type
- Utility , transport , armed capable helicopter
- National origin
- Soviet Union / Russia
- Designer
- Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant
- Built by
- Kazan Helicopter Plant , Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant
- Status
- In service
- Primary users
- Russia Approx. 60 other countries
- Number built
- Approx. 12,000 as of 2007
- Manufactured
- 1977–present
- Introduction date
- 1977 (Mi-8MT), 1981 (Mi-17)
- Developed from
- Mil Mi-8
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Mil Mi-17 (NATO reporting name: Hip) is a Soviet-designed Russian military helicopter family introduced in 1975 (Mi-8M), continuing in production as of 2024 at two factories in Russia, in Kazan and Ulan-Ude. It is known as the Mi-8M series in Russian service. The helicopter is mostly used as a medium twin-turbine transport helicopter, as well as an armed gunship version.
Development
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mil Mi-17” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.