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Russian Helicopters reported revenues for 2013 at 138.3 billion roubles (approximately $3.81 billion), just short of the forecast 140 billion), a 10-percent increase on 2012. Rotorcraft sales generated 115.8 billion roubles and services 29.6 billion. EBITDA rose by 27 percent, to 26.3 billion roubles, and profit to 9.5 billion roubles, a rise of 1.3 percent. During the year 275 of 303 helicopters produced were delivered, 15 fewer than in 2012. Nine types of rotorcraft were shipped to customers in 10 countries. The order backlog at year-end stood at 808. Manufacturing costs per helicopter rose by 6.5 percent.

Mikheyev says the company will continue its efforts to reduce manufacturing costs for better financial efficiency. Capital investments last year grew by 25 percent, to 16.2 billion roubles, including those in the manufacturing base, by 8.5 percent to 8.3 billion roubles. R&D allocations grew by 48.4 percent to 7.9 billion roubles. Russian Helicopters has long been planning an initial public offering but has postponed it several times since 2008 in a bid to raise more money by demonstrating sustained and profitable growth to the market.

Despite encouraging figures, the recent escalation of tensions with Ukraine poses a major threat to Russian rotorcraft production. Ukraine has traditionally supplied turboshaft engines for both Mil and Kamov designs. According to Vyacheslav Boguslaev, president of Zaporozhie-based engine manufacturer Motor Sich, the company produced 1,000 engines for helicopters last year and supplied most of them to Russian manufacturing plants in Kazan, Ulan-Ude, Rostov-on-Don, Kumertau and Arseniev. About a hundred Ukrainian-made jet engines, locally developed D436 and AI222 designs, went to Antonov and Yakovlev aircraft assembled in Russia.

Both India and China operate hundreds of Russian-made helicopters powered by Ukrainian engines. In the past month Ukrainian ambassador Alexander Shevchenko said that more than 1,500 Ukrainian-made engines are operational in India. That number includes TV2- and TV3-series turboshafts in Mi-8/17/35 and Kamov Ka-28/31 helicopters, as well as AI20-series turboprops in Antonov An-32 tactical airlifters.

"The major dependence is on engines made in Ukraine," Pukhov said. Russia took steps to ease this dependence after the Orange Revolution in 2004, when popular protests in Ukraine's capital, Kiev, against a rigged presidential election forced the Russian sponsored candidate, Victor Yanukovych, to surrender power. But Russia still produces only about 100 helicopter engines in St. Petersburg a year — far short of the 350 to 400 engines needed by producers.

This is no problem for the Air Force and related ministries — domestic engine production can cover their requirements, Pukhov said. But he added that supply disruptions from Ukraine will potentially damage "all civilian buyers of Russian helicopters, and especially overseas customers like India, China, and the U.S., which purchased Mi-17 helicopters for the Afghan Defense Ministry."

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