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Russian high-speed testbed revealed
A high-speed helicopter testbed based on a Mi-24K attack helicopter will take to the air for the first time in late 2015, it has emerged.
Originally developed within the framework of the RACHEL (Russian Advanced Commercial Helicopter) programme, the rotorcraft was shown to the public for the first time at ...
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