MI-6 (HOOK) HELICOPTER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82R00025R000700010003-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 8, 1966
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release 2005/01/06 : CIA-RDP82R00025R000700010003-5
8 March 1966
MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT: MI-6 (Hook) Helicopter
The M14 (Hook) is a heavy transport helicopter. It is the largest
operational transport helicopter in the world, about twice the size of any
US helicopter. Since 1957 the Hook has established fourteen international
records including one in which the Hook lifted 44, 350 lbs. to a height of
8, 983 it. For another it traveled at a speed of 183 kts over a 100 kilometer
closed course.
The Hook is widely used in Soviet Tactical Aviation with limited
numbers in naval aviation and military transport aviation. None has been
given to the East European military forces, although the Soviet Union has
furnished a few to Indonesia and the UAR. Communist China currently has
six on order. Because of its size, the Hook can perform unique missions
which cannot be performed by any other vehicle. The only drawback noted
to date is the short period between major overhauls, 500 hours or less.
Technical data follows:
Helicopter weight empty
59,700 lbs.
Normal payload
13, 200 lbs.
Maximum payload
26, 500 lbs. (by reducing fuel load
Number of crew
5
her of troops
61
Range/radius
350/160 n. m.
Cruise speed
135 knots
Maximum speed
155 knots
service ceiling
14.750 ft.
Approved For Release 2005/01/06 : CIA-RDP82R00025R000700010003-5