Be-200 is a unique Russian aircraft for extinguishing forest fires

It seems that Russian aviation is in crisis. Even modern aircraft - these are old Soviet developments. Naturally, they are not competitive on the world market. And we do not provide ourselves with passenger airliners. In fact, aircraft continued to be developed even in the first half of the 90s, when the Soviet Union collapsed. Only funding was seriously cut, which is why designers ran away in search of places where they would pay. And then customers were no longer interested in new developments.

But we have several models from the 90s that have been launched into serial production. For example, the Be-200 is an amphibious aircraft. The model was developed at the Beriev Aircraft Company and is manufactured at the Irkutsk Aviation Plant. This is the Be-200 aircraft, the main task of which is to extinguish forest fires. The model can carry up to 12 tons of water, and is refueled from open sources on the fly. That is, the aircraft glides over a river, lake, sea or ocean. The water intake takes an average of 15 seconds. Then the Be-200 immediately flies to the site of the fire, where it drops the load. The author of the SkyShips channel will tell you about the model. By the way, this aircraft has no analogues in the world, so many countries order it from us.