{"id":138107,"date":"2024-10-09T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/mi-17-us-army-secret-russian-made-helicopters\/"},"modified":"2024-10-09T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T05:00:12","slug":"mi-17-how-did-the-us-army-end-up-secretly-operating-russian-made-helicopters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=138107","title":{"rendered":"Mi-17: How Did The US Army End Up Secretly Operating Russian-Made Helicopters?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"136398\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\"  >United States<\/a><\/span> secretly operates             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256294\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/sovietunion\/\"  >Soviet<\/a><\/span>-designed Mil Mi-17 (NATO reporting name &#8220;Hip&#8221;) military             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60458\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/helicopters\/\"  >helicopoters<\/a><\/span>. The Mi-17 is a medium transport helicopter that is also used as an armed gunship in some versions. Mi-17s are used around the world &#8211; mostly in emerging countries with low budgets and in countries that had good relationships with the Soviets. It remains in production in two factories in Russia (in Kazan and Ulan-Ude) as the Mil Mi-8 (        <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2030219\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ukrainian-drone-shoots-down-russian-15-million-12-ton-helicopter\/\" >Ukraine may have recently shot down an Mi-8 with a small FPV drone for the first time<\/a><\/span>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is known to have purchased multiple Mi-17 helicopters of Soviet origin and may operate as many as 30 of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,397,816,474,412,1175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-helicopter","category-helicopters","category-military","category-soviet-planes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138108,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138107\/revisions\/138108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}