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| Z-10 | |
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| A Z-10 displaying at the 2012 China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition. | |
| Role | Attack helicopter |
| Manufacturer | Changhe Aircraft Industries Corporation (CAIC) |
| Design group | Kamov[1][2][3][4] |
| First flight | 29 April 2003 |
| Introduction | December 2012 |
| Status | In service[5] |
| Primary user | People's Liberation Army Ground Force Pakistan Army Aviation Corps |
| Produced | 2003-present |
The Changhe Z-10 (Chinese: 直-10, "helicopter-10") is a Chinese (developed together with Russian Kamov bureau) medium attack helicopter developed for the People's Liberation Army Ground Force. It is designed primarily for anti-tank warfare missions but has secondary air-to-air combat capability as well.
Initiated by chief designer Wu Ximing, the project had early Russian involvement with Kamov Design Bureau of Russia under a contract with the Chinese government, but the collaboration was abruptly stopped due to fundamental design philosophy disagreements. The Chinese designers and their customer, the PLA General Armaments Department, preferred a lighter-weight, more agile airframe with less emphasis on armor. The helicopter was further developed by Changhe Aircraft Industries Corporation (CAIC) and is locally manufactured.[1][3][4]
Nicknames of characters in the Chinese classic novel Water Margin have been used to name Z-10 and its light-weight counterpart, the Harbin Z-19: Z-10 is called Fierce Thunderbolt (Pi Li Huo, 霹雳火), the nickname of Qin Ming, while Z-19 is called Black Whirlwind (Hei Xuan Feng, 黑旋风), the nickname of Li Kui.[6][7]
In September 2016, the PLA announced that all of its army aviation units had been equipped with the Z-10.[8]
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- ^ WZ-10 attack helicopter now deployed in all PLA aviation units Archived 2016-12-20 at the Wayback Machine - Airrecognition.com, 8 September 2016