Gaining lift - Russia's rotorcraft industry

摘要

Last year was successful for the Russian helicopter industry, as the total of production of Russia Helicopters, Russia's monopoly for the production of helicopters, (part of Russian State Technologies Corporation), reached 303 helicopters, while its revenue exceeded 140bn rubles ($3·9bn), which is a record figure for the past few years. The firm order book in 2013 totalled 772 helicopters worth more than 370bn rubles ($ 10·28bn). For future orders in 2014 and 2015 its portfolio of commercial orders is fully formed, while for 2016 it is currently formed by 25%. In the past the majority of production was accounted for by civil helicopters, which were mostly supplied to foreign customers, now Russia has significantly increased the production and supplies of military helicopters to its national army.