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chopper2004

1st Nov 2019 17:59

PLAAF Z-18G/L crash

According to HK news it appears that latest PLAAF Z-8G/L (the front of this battlefield version reminds me of a Merlin even though the airframe is loosely derived from the older larger Z-8 Suepr Frelon which it is replacing) has crashed fortnight ago.. It lifted off from Chong City, guangxi on an exercise (apparently to simulate an assault on a Hong Kong mountain) with all hands lost. The Unit in question is the 75th Army in the region

https://hk.news.appledaily.com/china...91030/60213997

Fareastdriver

1st Nov 2019 20:15

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the airframe is loosely derived from the older larger Z-8 Suepr Frelon which it is replacing)

The transmission is certainly Super Frelon because of the direction of rotation of the main rotor; derived from the Sikorsky S64.

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