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A Ka-50 provided cover for the landing of troops and then worked on the ground targets using its cannons and rockets. [20] India issued a request for proposal for 22 attack helicopters for the Indian Air Force in May 2008. [111] The Ka-50, the Mil Mi-28, and the Eurocopter Tiger were the front-runners for this order as of October 2008. [112]
naval transport and utility helicopter Ka-90 High-speed helicopter project. Ka-92 passenger helicopter Ka-115 Moskvichka 1990s light multi-purpose helicopter Ka-118 1980s-1990s A NOTAR development - light multirole helicopter Ka-126 1980s Light utility helicopter. NATO reporting name Hoodlum-B. Ka-128 light utility helicopter (one prototype ...
Production of the attack helicopter was ordered by the Soviet Council of Ministers on 14 December 1987. Following initial flight testing and system tests the Council ordered the first batch of the helicopter in 1990. The attack helicopter was first described publicly as the "Ka-50" in March 1992 at a symposium in the United Kingdom. [8]
Kamov was founded by Nikolai Ilyich Kamov, who started building his first rotary-winged aircraft in 1929, together with N. K. Skrzhinskii.Up to 1940, the year of Kamov plant establishment, they created many autogyros, including the TsAGI A-7-3, the only armed autogyro to see (limited) combat action.
Honeywell further modified the QAH-1S into the Hokum-X by installing systems and hardware to allow it to simulate the Russian Kamov Ka-50 attack helicopter. Three Hokum-Xs were completed from 1998 to 2001. [84] [85] AH-1P
Ukraine, in turn, will seek new methods to strike Russia’s more distant helicopter bases and search for mobile frontline air defenses that can threaten Ka-52s within guided missile range.
The Mi-28 is a new-generation attack helicopter that functions as an air-to-air and air-to-ground partner for the Mi-24 Hind and Ka-50 Hokum. The five-blade main rotor is mounted above the body midsection, short, wide, tapered, weapon-carrying wings are mounted to the rear of the body midsection.
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