What's a big deal is this?
If you read the original news carefully enough, it's easy to find out how much portion of work was done by KAMOV.
From Keypublishing:
Any new pic's of the WZ-10 - Page 2 - Key Publishing Ltd Aviation Forums
2007.
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Helicopter WZ-10 was project KAMOV Company at 1995 year for China Army.
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I worked with this helicopter in that time.
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kamov company carried out the followings works:
it is
- a structurally-power chart
- arrangement
- weight calculation
- aerodynamics
The Chinese side gave the sizes of equipment and weapon, type of engines (T-700), type of cannon (Am-23), amount of members of crew and requirement to the aerodynamic chart
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Kamov Company ended the draft in the period 1995-1996. Release working design documentation produced Chinese side. For 10 years the helicopter changed a lot, the other engine, gun, sighting device and much more. Draft-Russian but helicopter - Chinese - and this is a very great achievement of Chinese Industry.
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Incidentally, the project has been start from scratch. The closest to him, a prototype helicopter Ka-50
The Chinese side has paid for and received the draft. In "iron", it epitomized his own. Over the 10 past years helicopter certainly changed a lot of equipment, but little has changed outwardly
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similarities helicopter WZ-10 with a "Tiger" or "Mongooses" akin similarity sharks and dolphin - different family but appearance...