ロシアで発生した森林火災が国境を越え、中国内モンゴル自治区大興安嶺北部まで燃え広がった。森林武警内モンゴル・黒竜江総隊が消火活動に参加する。 pic.twitter.com/If4yIb5vCA
— OedoSoldier (@OedoSoldier) May 5, 2017
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The automatic translation from Bing about the Russian-made Mi-26 helicopter:
Cross-border forest fires occurred in Russia, driven by China in Mongolia Autonomous daeheung an Ridge North. Join the Wu troops in Mongolia and Heilongjiang total fire fighting!
And Google’s auto-translation:
Forest fires occurred in Russia crossed the border and spread to the northern part of Daixing Anrill in China ‘s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Forest Takeshi Kaiuchi Mongolia · Heilongji Squadron participate in firefighting activities.
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Wow, Now that is massive. Does this actually fly ? LOL
Mi 26, it does fly. SEI (Bambi Buckets) deigned a trapeze rigging to place two of their 2000 gallon buckets side by side to fight fires. I have seen test footage but it is unclear if it was actually used on fires. As Cal Fire goes to contract to replace its fleet of Super UH-1’s I wonder if the Mi 26 was in the final four bidders? A five thousand gallon bucket and four Cal Fire crews, sixty eight fire fighters and four captains. Might as well put the emergency fire crew busses inside also.
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