Russian Helicopters to deliver Mil Mi-171E to Kazakh Emergency Situations Ministry in 2015
ASTANA. May 22 (Interfax-AVN) - The holding Russian Helicopters has announced the delivery of a Mil Mi-171E helicopter to the Kazakh Emergency Situations Ministry in 2015.
"The holding Russian Helicopters [a subsidiary of Rostec's Oboronprom] and the Kazakh Emergency Situations Ministry have signed an agreement on the delivery of a Mil Mi-171E helicopter. The helicopter will be handed over to the client in 2015," says a holding report posted at the opening ceremony of the KADEX 2014 Third Kazakhstan Defense Show in Astana.
The Almaty administration will procure a Mil Mi-8AMT helicopter in 2014, the report said.
The Mil Mi-171E is an offspring of the Mil Mi-8/17 family designed to clean up aftereffects of floods, earthquakes and manmade disasters, to put out forest fires and to provide medical aid in the field.
The Mi-171E can fly in bad weather and transport up to 26 passengers or up to twelve patients on stretchers accompanied by medical personnel.
The cargo modification of the helicopter transports up to 4 tonnes of cargo inside the cabin or on a sling.
The report mentioned that the Kazakh Emergency Situations Ministry procured two Kamov Ka-32A11VS multirole helicopters in May 2012. Rosoboronexport delivered four Mil Mi-171Sh helicopters to the Border Service of the Kazakh National Security Committee in February 2013 and the holding supplied a Mil Mi-171E helicopter to the Kazakh Interior Ministry in October.