China should purchase CH-47 Chinook

The Mi-26 does have a heavier lift capacity than the CH-47, that's one good reason for acquiring these.

montyp165 said:

The Mi-26 does have a heavier lift capacity than the CH-47, that's one good reason for acquiring these.

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However, the Chinook does have superior hot and high performance as demonstrated in Afghanistan, and the twin tandem rotor design allows for quick loading and unloading of personnel.

PrOeLiTeZ said:

yeah but not much generousity is going around the world to helping China right now...no donation boxes anywhere to be seen, or any advertisment asking for donations...its very quite unknown in Australia not the same treatment and public awarness such as the Tsunami...

im really disappointed how their isn't much effort going around for the public to give some money to China...

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I don't want to sound callous here but I think that's because the tsunami hit Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India. All of those countries are poorer and less able to help themselves than China is. Those governments really weren't able to handle that size of a disaster, and China is more than capable of taking care of these people in the short term. Also the tsunami was much larger in scale.

Guys its called sarcasm jeez....thought you guys would pick it up...but obviously you didn't, Japan send couple specialised personals to China, and Tawain has given a fair lump of money too..

There is no sarcasm in forums or writing. It is better if you place a mark at the end like this "", which means what's said is not serious.

Lot more information on international aid to China:


The Chinook is a good helicoptor, and I'm not how Mi-26 compares with it in hot and high altitude environments, but the Mi-26 should be a good plane for China to have if there are no alternatives. It's a good thing China already has one on rent from Russia to aid rescue efforts, and that they can indigenously construct Mi-17 in Sichuan. It'll be nice to know how the Mi-26 performed in the rescue mission.

Ryz05 said:

The Chinook is a good helicoptor, and I'm not how Mi-26 compares with it in hot and high altitude environments, but the Mi-26 should be a good plane for China to have if there are no alternatives. It's a good thing China already has one on rent from Russia to aid rescue efforts, and that they can indigenously construct Mi-17 in Sichuan. It'll be nice to know how the Mi-26 performed in the rescue mission.

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Traditional helicopters (those in the standard configuration with a main rotor and a tail rotor) are less efficient in hot and high conditions, which exposes the fact that a portion of the engine power is diverted to keeping the helicopter straight. In such conditions, the rotors (both main and tail) have less air to bite into, and the engines are gasping for air. Helicopters that use a tandem configuration divert all of their engine power to lift, which makes them superior in such conditions, and they don't take such a big payload penalty compared to a traditional helicopter.

I don't really see the point of these fantasy shopping list threads that pop up every now and then. The only times you're going to see the US sell military hardware to the Chinese is when Chinese technology comes to par or surpasses that of the West which will be pointless since the Chinese wouldn't need it and can make it themselves or if a new "war" occurs where you find both the West and China on the same side.

You know right now there's a countdown on when the first news article surfaces, chances are by Pinkov or Richard Fisher, that screams out "bloody murder" because Chinese Blackhawks were seen being used during the earthquake. It's either going to be someone in the US is smuggling Blackhawk parts to China or China has started to manufacture Blackhawk copies.

The end story is its not gonna happen..US sure as hell wont sell these Heli to China..nor will some of its US allied nation. If they do US will sure as hell enforce alot of pressure and cut off supplies, deliveries and further contracts cause of this violation of transferring technology. Wasn't China orginally purchasing some MI-26T, this heli puts its payload comparable to a C-130...wouldnt it??

Ryz05 said:

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The Chinook is a good helicoptor, and I'm not how Mi-26 compares with it in hot and high altitude environments, but the Mi-26 should be a good plane for China to have if there are no alternatives. It's a good thing China already has one on rent from Russia to aid rescue efforts, and that they can indigenously construct Mi-17 in Sichuan. It'll be nice to know how the Mi-26 performed in the rescue mission.

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wow party pooper ^.-, no but seriously great gennouristy from the wider community...Good Job

Pointblank said:

Traditional helicopters (those in the standard configuration with a main rotor and a tail rotor) are less efficient in hot and high conditions, which exposes the fact that a portion of the engine power is diverted to keeping the helicopter straight. In such conditions, the rotors (both main and tail) have less air to bite into, and the engines are gasping for air. Helicopters that use a tandem configuration divert all of their engine power to lift, which makes them superior in such conditions, and they don't take such a big payload penalty compared to a traditional helicopter.

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It would be an interesting possibility if a Chinook-type helo could be built using components of the Halo, like the cancelled HLH, that would allow for better payload and speed than the Chinooks.