The WZ-16 Turboshaft engine with 1500kW and 1800 shp power output. This engine should be certified this year and probably enter serial production next year. This engine will power future Z-10, Z15 and Z-20 helicopters.
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As for the Kamov story. China in the 1990's had zero experience in designing or building a modern attack helicopter so to help them kick start the project they paid Kamov in Russia for some consultancy work on the design. Nothing special about it only nationalists and haters would make a big deal out of this.
There is no proof whatsoever that Kamov help China developing WZ 10 People should not take credit where credit is not due. Only people with severe inferiority complex lap everything what the rumor mill produced.
Why would anyone give freely their crown jewel of technology to the future competitor No one will do that. Kamov interest is selling helicopter not giving away their technology. If anything they refuse to sell to China. By late 90 China has extensive experience reverse engineering Dauphin Helicopter. It was not until late 90 is the development start in earnest by then the industrial base of China have improve considerably.
Kamov is specialist in counter rotary helicopter and WZ 10 is not;
The Pratt Whitney Canada gas turbine power the wz10 prototype and not Russian engine. If Kamov designed the WZ 10 they will use Russian or Ukrainian engine because that is what they are familiar with
People often forget the lesson of history . During Sino Russo break in late 60 The Russian took every single blue print for weapon assistance program and tore it apart and leave the Chinese holding the bag.
You think with that kind of experience they will slavishly beg the Russian again?
Wikipedia has good background on WZ 10
The colour revolutions prevented the purchase of attack helicopters from Eastern Europe in 1990 and 1991; Bulgaria and Russia rejected Chinese offers to purchase the Mil Mi-24.
To fill the gap in the short term, the Chinese attempted to procure a license to manufacture Mil Mi-28s; the deal fell apart in 1994.
This left the indigenous program. In 1990, or 1991, the Armed Helicopter Developmental Work Team (武装直升机开发工作小组) was formed to develop a new medium helicopter design, as opposed to basing the new design on the light helicopters then in service. The 602nd and 608th Research Institutes started development of the 6-ton class China Medium Helicopter (CHM) program[2] in 1994. The program was promoted as a civilian project, and was able to secure significant Western technical assistance, such as from Eurocopter
We have video of the interview with the chief designer of WZ 10 and He flatly reject the unfounded rumor that Either Russia or the West help China
Design
Chief designer of the WZ-10 was Wu Ximing (吴希明) of the 602nd Research Institute, one of the Chinese top scientists involved in the 863 Program. Wu had earlier participated in the designs of the armed version of transport helicopters Z-8A and WZ-9. The WZ-10 is the first Chinese helicopter conceived of using paperless design, and the all-electronic/online design enabled the design work to be completed within a year. In order to complete the necessary development, the 602nd Research Institute and CAIC had jointly built a new engineering design center, industrial simulator, aircraft engine ground test center, fatigue laboratory, and rotary test platform (nicknamed as Iron Bird Platform, 铁鸟台). In the end of 2001, the final test was completed on the full-scale rotary test platform, paving the way for test flights.
