Naval Helicopter thread

[MwRYum]

How about the Indian LCH Light Combat Helicopter do the Chinese have this?

They do - WZ-10 and Z-19, if go by the "light" standard - but none were naval helicopter, neither do Indian LCH.

 

[Hendrik_2000]

2012-01-11 (China Military News cited from australianaviation.com.au) -- Eurocopter has released enhanced performance specifications for its EC175 medium utility helicopter, due to begin deliveries later this year.

Under the revised specs, Eurocopter upped the baseline payload/radius of action capacity to 16 passengers at 135 nautical miles, a 30 per cent increase over the initial performance baseline. For longer range missions, the EC175 will be able to carry 12 passenger to a radius of action of 190 nautical miles, Eurocopter said.

The company said it has also launched an 18 passenger configuration rated to a radius of 100 nautical miles.

The seven tonne class EC175 was launched in early December 2005 to fill the gap between Eurocopter’s AS365 Dauphin and AS332/EC225 Super Puma, and is aimed at the oil and gas industry for offshore platform transfer work. Development work is split equally between Eurocopter and China’s Aeronautics Industries Group Corporation (AVIC), with Eurocopter to manufacture it as the EC175 at Marignane, and AVIC to build it as the Z15.

The European version is powered by twin Pratt & Whitney PT6C-67E engines with dual-channel FADEC.

Eurocopter hopes to sell 800 EC175s over 20 years, with deliveries slated to begin in late 2012.

 

[CottageLV]

Helicopters are inferior in nature compared to fixed winged aircrafts, due to their speed and combat radius. China should focus more on medium sized aircrafts (about the size of E2 or slightly larger) that can be branched into anti-submarine warfare, ECW, and cargo transportation.
Seriously, who wants to use something that cruises at 250km/h when everything else easily surpasses 800.

 

[MwRYum]

Helicopters are inferior in nature compared to fixed winged aircrafts, due to their speed and combat radius. China should focus more on medium sized aircrafts (about the size of E2 or slightly larger) that can be branched into anti-submarine warfare, ECW, and cargo transportation.
Seriously, who wants to use something that cruises at 250km/h when everything else easily surpasses 800.

That's because Chinese own CATOBAR carrier is still years - within a decade at the fastest - away, but vertical aviation assets is a clear-and-present requirement at this time.

And by all the sources the Chinese are working in that sector as well, alas with far less glamor and attention.

 

[HKSDU]

Helicopters are inferior in nature compared to fixed winged aircrafts, due to their speed and combat radius. China should focus more on medium sized aircrafts (about the size of E2 or slightly larger) that can be branched into anti-submarine warfare, ECW, and cargo transportation.
Seriously, who wants to use something that cruises at 250km/h when everything else easily surpasses 800.

How are you going to launch fixed wing aircrafts from destroyers & frigates? It isn't just about speed and range.

 

[plawolf]

Indeed, and once a target has been found, there is no fixed wing (other than the V22) that could hover on the spot and drop a dipping sonar to make absolutely sure a contact is what you think it is.

Rotor and fixed-wing aircraft both have their own set of pros and cons and uses, to suggest one is categorically better than the other is to compare apples to oranges.

 

[AssassinsMace]

Looks like the made one for the army.

 

[Blitzo]

Could be a testbed for the original Z-8AEW prototype -- we've seen Mi-17's equipped with Z-10 prototypes' optics/weapon suites before for testing too.

 

[escobar]

Z-9

Z-8

AC313

EC120

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Z-11 and Z-8

Anti-sub warfare exercice in SCS

 

[asif iqbal]

AC313

that is not AC313 that is Z8, and that is a pretty old pic from a while ago