16 February 2015

News Story: Z-20, China's version of Black Hawk, to enter production 2018


Chinese military analyst Li Xiaojian has told the state-run Global Times that the production of Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation's Z-20 medium-lift helicopter is likely to begin in 2018, five years after its first test flight.

Sources suggest that the Z-20 was designed based on the stealth version of the crashed US Black Hawk that was abandoned by US Navy SEALs in Pakistan during the operation to kill Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011.

Read the full story at Want China Times