Re: Nothing new.....
" big, Russian, "Flying Cranes"."
They were actually built in the USA by Sikorsky, who was Russian by origin but very much part of the USA industrial complex
To be precise the S-64 SkyCrane, which in military service became the CH-54 Tarhe
The design has now been sold off and someone else still has them in limited production
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_S-64_Skycrane