MOSCOW. Dec 24 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian Army Aviation will get the KA-52 Alligator and MI-28 Havoc helicopters next year, Vladimir Mikhailov, Air Force Commander, told Interfax- Military News Agency Wednesday.
"In 2004 we will begin supplying the Army Aviation with new MI-28 and KA-52 helicopters," he said.
According to the Air Force Commander, he personally handles the adoption of this new branch into the Air Force.
"A lion's share of my time is given to the army aviation because a year ago it was transferred to the Air Force from the Land Forces in a dreadful condition," Mikhailov said. He added that sometimes problems of the army aviation required his personal interference.
He emphasized that only on December 1 when Lieutenant General Anatoly Surtsukov, a very experienced pilot, was appointed chief of the relevant department in the Air Force had the Air Force taken full control of the Army aviation.