Production of the Kamov Ka-60 multirole helicopter will start in 2003 at RSK MiG’s Lukhovitsy machine-building plant near Moscow.
Kamov general designer Sergei Mikheyev says the factory has started to manufacture a second flyable Ka-60.The machine will be built as a military trainer, the Ka-60U, which is intended to replace the much heavier Mil Mi-8Hip in that role.
As the Ka-60 shares a common fuselage, dynamic system and the NPO Saturn RD-600V engines with the commercial Ka-62, the helicopter is expected to be available for civilian sales soon after the military machines. A smaller variant of the Ka-60 is being offered to the Russian navy as its next-generation utility helicopter.
Source: Flight International
