Wings of Russia: Helicopters. Soldiers and Workers. (Episode 14 of 18)

26 of April, 1986. Two explosions happened on the 4th energy block of Chernobil's Nuclear Powerplant. Catastrophe stroke this nuclear object. Scientists proposed to tightly shut reactor with on top protective layer of sand. But it was impossible to approach the emergency block from anywhere, except than from the air. And only helicopters could execute this task. Temperature reached 200 degrees. Radiation exceeded all norms by thousands of times. In such tragic circumstances helicopters and people, who controlled them, have show what they are capable to do.
Following helicopters are featuring in this film: Mi-6, Ka-22, Mi-10, Ka-25, Mi-8, V-12, Mi-26, Mi-2, Ka-26, Ka-27/32, Mi-14, Mi-17, Mi-24, Ka-29, Mi-34, Ka-226, Mi-28, Ka-50 "Black Shark", Ka-52 "Alligator", Mi-38 "Ansat".

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This is a documentary of "Wings of Russia" studio about history of development of Russian Aviation. It contains a lot of unique video footage. The documentary speaks about creation and development of fighters, bombers, helicopters, reconnaissance planes, hydro-planes, planes of civilian Aviation and also about sport and training Aviation, in the USSR and Russia.

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Science & Technology

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• Russian
• Army
• military
• history
• documentary
• air
• force
• AF
• attack
• strike
• rescue
• helicopter
• heli
• flying
• russia
• Mil
• Mi
• Kamov
• Ka
• all
• road
• moscow
• navy

[Shahzaib0332]

At 7:45 it look like american have copied the osprey design from Late Red Army....

[BitnikGr]

@Shahzaib0332 Here is a good vid for you: /watch?v=44pSDvWI2mc

Idea of vertical take off and landing existed since WW II and there are different approaches and solutions to create a convertiplane. Ka-22 is a gyrodyne. V-22 Osprey is a tilt-rotor. Two different approaches. A tiltrotor aircraft can't be copy of a gyrodyne.

[saptono]

Seeing this video serial, the former USSR was not so secrecy about their military equipments. Even so I have a feeling that the western media had been trying hard to understate world records booked by Russian aircraft

[BitnikGr]

@TheRidersChoice Ok! How about rates per 100.000 flying hours?

Helicopter accident rate per 100,000 flying hours. (hellicopterannual com)

USA: 2004 - 7.1, 2005 - 6.32, 2006 - 4.94, 2007 - 5.07, 2008 - 3.67

15 CIS countries (source MAK - International Aviation Committee Report, page 12)

mak.ru/russian/info/doclad_bp/­2008/files/bp07.pdf

2003 - 2.3, 2004 - 4.3, 2005 - 3, 2006 - 1.7, 2007 - 2.2

Satisfied?

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[normison69]

@BitnikGr Yes indeed to your last remark.

[normison69]

@BitnikGr Yea but USA had also very aggressive Capitalism dog eat dog, and the divide between the poor and rich was at the highest in US during 80s, also it had very aggressive War policies and still has. Sad imo.

[jwpierce07]

@BitnikGr We might have more of lesser quality, but remember quantity has a quality all of it's own.

[BitnikGr]

@normison69 ...

None system was perfect. The USSR hadn't democratic values and political freedoms for its citizens. And the USA, despite it is the youngest of modern democratic states and counts 300 years, had racism issues till 70s.

Another problem is that communism of the USSR was aggressive. They wanted domination of labor class all around the world through revolutions from inside in capitalistic countries... But hey... doesn't modern "democracy" do the same today? :)))

[BitnikGr]

@normison69 The only real problem in post-war relations of the USA and the USSR was that their spheres of influence and interest were overlapping. If they would be separated without points of contacts then we probably could avoid entire Cold War era stage.

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[normison69]

@BitnikGr So where is the big evil in USSR? It seems the Russians and Soviets overall have never hated the Americans and the people wanted the same things on both sides, love and families. But only "Evils" were in both sides goverments wich trough propaganda made Soviets look evil and Soviet propaganda made US look evil.

[BitnikGr]

@normison69 $1 = 0.67ruble in USSR. The rate was fixed, but it didn't necessary represented a real economic value of Soviet currency and efficiency of its economy.

Phil Donahue had organized TV-bridge USA-USSR where simple people could talk to each other and it was proved that simple people of two so different super powers actually wanted the same things. To love, to be loved, to make a family, to have healthy children. Commonality on everyday life issues was staggering.

[normison69]

@BitnikGr Yea true for USSR untill 85 maybe, because one main causes of USSR downfall was the Chernobyl accident wich cost 1 billion rubles to contain and that time one ruble was equal to one dollar and it was year 86 money when dollar was very high. But in US the "simple life" ended in beginning of 80s when came Credit Cards and Street Gang wars etc etc and the overconsumption started in US at beginning of 80s imo.