The Russians were supposed to supply the engine for the helicopter but that went nowhere. Development was switched from Aviadvigatel to Kuznetsov. The engine was renamed from PD-12V to PD-8V since it switched to the PD-8 engine core. They would be lucky if it is in serial production by 2030.
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Z-XX - new heavy-lift helicopter
- Thread starter Deino
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Seriously, seems Russians are not as reliable as one would imagine. Even Chinese/european cooperation has yielded far better results than cooperation either Russia. Look at the safran/AVIC WZ16 (Ardiden 3C) for the AC352 and the Arriel 2H for the AC312E. They are already been successful produce and in full service in China and even Europe .The Russians were supposed to supply the engine for the helicopter but that went nowhere. Development was switched from Aviadvigatel to Kuznetsov. The engine was renamed from PD-12V to PD-8V since it switched to the PD-8 engine core. They would be lucky if it is in serial production by 2030.
Cooperation with Russia always seems to go nowhere, I’m not even optimistic with ILRS with Russia, believe it will end up a Chinese only led project as always(similar to civil airliner C929)
The reality is the programs mentioned mostly failed because China is still regretably kowtowing to the US blackmail to play along the embargos against Russia. This is still a disappointing weakness of China's foreign policy, particularly as the US is not even hiding it's nefarious plans against China.