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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]
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]
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 ...
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.
Helicopters have also been used in films, both in front and behind the camera. [30] The largest single non-combat helicopter operation in history was the disaster management operation following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Hundreds of pilots were involved in airdrop and observation missions, making dozens of sorties a day for several ...
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.
Drawing of the Kamov V-50 model Drawing of an earlier model of the Kamov V-50. The Kamov V-50 was an armed tandem-rotor transport helicopter project from Kamov, with a projected speed of 400 km/h. The project was abandoned in the late 1969 after being started in early 1968. [1]
Crews from Avalon and the L.A. County fire and sheriff's departments found the plane about a mile west of Catalina Airport. Five people were dead at the scene.