Ka-52 in Russian Air Force

GarryB wrote:
The radar on the Ka-52 has a MMW radar in the nose and they don't seem to be fitting the above rotor mounted cm wave 360 degree radar in the aircraft they are testing... perhaps they think President-M can do the job and 360 degree radar is not needed... or is not worth the effort/cost.

GarryB wrote:Mainly only active on this forum now...

GarryB wrote:Mainly only active on this forum now...

You will find old posts from GarryB on the Key publishing forum, and GazB on the Milphotos net but I pretty much got sick of having the same discussions over and over about how the Soviet military did not win WWII against the Germans because of numbers and the snow, or how all Soviet weapons are copies of US designs yet still manage to be inferior blah blah blah.

It was the same old story... a few older people who were set in their cold war mentality that didn't listen no matter what argument I put forward or what evidence was presented, plus a few younger posters that often started with the stupid remarks and ending up not actually agreeing with me but at least having a less biased impression of Russia when we finish.

The old diehards cannot be swayed, but the real problem is the steady stream of newbies that would pop up every once and a while with a stupid comment which would then descend into the same old arguments/discussions.

The underlying problem was that some of the old diehards were mods, so it wasn't a level playing field when it came to discussions... ie claiming Putin murdered that guy in Britain with Polonium personally was OK but saying anything against George Bush was disrespectful of the office he holds. Of course currently slinging off at Obama is OK because apparently a democrat president is not as sacred as a republican president... and all that sort of rubbish.

Anyway, I have found a site where Russia is not a bad word, so I am happy...

GarryB wrote:

The mast mounted radar on the Kamovs is the cm wave antenna with 360 degree coverage and is much smaller than the fixed forward looking mmw radar antenna in the nose.

Would be good if they moved to a modern fixed phased array cm wavelength radar for mounting on the mast with electronic scanning.

Their work on panel arrays that can be integrated into the aircrafts skin should make it easier to mount it where it is needed.

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GarryB wrote:Mainly only active on this forum now...

You will find old posts from GarryB on the Key publishing forum, and GazB on the Milphotos net but I pretty much got sick of having the same discussions over and over about how the Soviet military did not win WWII against the Germans because of numbers and the snow, or how all Soviet weapons are copies of US designs yet still manage to be inferior blah blah blah.

It was the same old story... a few older people who were set in their cold war mentality that didn't listen no matter what argument I put forward or what evidence was presented, plus a few younger posters that often started with the stupid remarks and ending up not actually agreeing with me but at least having a less biased impression of Russia when we finish.

The old diehards cannot be swayed, but the real problem is the steady stream of newbies that would pop up every once and a while with a stupid comment which would then descend into the same old arguments/discussions.

The underlying problem was that some of the old diehards were mods, so it wasn't a level playing field when it came to discussions... ie claiming Putin murdered that guy in Britain with Polonium personally was OK but saying anything against George Bush was disrespectful of the office he holds. Of course currently slinging off at Obama is OK because apparently a democrat president is not as sacred as a republican president... and all that sort of rubbish.

Cyberspec wrote:
Yep I remember your nic ...welcome aboard.

Southern Military District received the first batch of "Alligator"


Southern Military District (SOUTH) has received the first batch of attack helicopters Ka-52 "Alligator". As reported in a press release the Ministry of Defense, the helicopters arrived at the air base of army aviation in the Krasnodar region and begin to fly in March 2013.

At an air base in Krasnodar helicopters arrived on their own. February 19 Defense Ministry reported that the helicopters have already tested in flight after building in the seaside plant "Progress".

What a number of helicopters arrived in SOUTH, not specified. All in the first half of 2013 troops districts receive more than ten helicopters Ka-52.

Previously head of the press service Igor SOUTH Gorbulya told that the airbase district already received more than ten attack helicopters Mi-28N "Night Hunter", the new attack helicopters Mi-35M and Mi-8AMTSh modernized. All helicopters are equipped for SOUTH satellite navigation systems GLONASS / GPS.

In 2011, the Russian Defense Ministry bought 140 attack helicopters Ka-52 "Alligator". Total 2020 the Defense Ministry plans to get about a thousand helicopters, including the Mi-28N, Ka-226, "Ansat", Mi-35, Mi-26T2 and Ka-52.

Ka-52 "Alligator" is designed to engage air and ground equipment (including armor) and manpower. The helicopter is armed with 30 mm gun 2A42, two guns UPK-23-250 caliber 23 mm in containers, as well as guided and unguided rockets, which are mounted on four or six hard points.

The crew of the helicopter is designed for two people. The Ka-52 can reach speeds of up to 350 kilometers per hour and cover up to 1,200 kilometers. The maximum height of its flight - 5500 meters.

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The lens spotter under the name "An-22" in Rostov-on-Don, 28 February 2013 were two helicopters Ka-52, collected on "Rostvertol" and passing there test after assembly - bearing the number "45 Red" and "55 red". As already mentioned, the "Rostvertol" from January 2013 is going to 16 Ka-52 of those made in 2012 of "Arsenyev Aviation Company" Progress "(as our blog previously reported ) Thus, we can suggest that the 16 helicopters were collected continuous ordinal registration as board rooms of red color with "41" to "56".
These 16 helicopters are for delivery in the 393rd Sevastopol military air base for the Russian Air Force, stationed at the airport Korenovsk (Krasnodar region). First collected in Rostov-on-Don, the Ka-52 (tail number "42 Red", the serial number 06.01) arrived in Korenovsk February 19, 2013.

TheArmenian wrote:

The lens spotter under the name "An-22" in Rostov-on-Don, 28 February 2013 were two helicopters Ka-52, collected on "Rostvertol" and passing there test after assembly - bearing the number "45 Red" and "55 red". As already mentioned, the "Rostvertol" from January 2013 is going to 16 Ka-52 of those made in 2012 of "Arsenyev Aviation Company" Progress "(as our blog previously reported ) Thus, we can suggest that the 16 helicopters were collected continuous ordinal registration as board rooms of red color with "41" to "56".
These 16 helicopters are for delivery in the 393rd Sevastopol military air base for the Russian Air Force, stationed at the airport Korenovsk (Krasnodar region). First collected in Rostov-on-Don, the Ka-52 (tail number "42 Red", the serial number 06.01) arrived in Korenovsk February 19, 2013.

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In September 1992, the Black Shark was displayed at the Farnborough Air Show near London, where it created a real stir. Strange as it may seem, the credit for this does not go to the Kamov designers only.

The UK Embassy delayed a visa to the Black Shark's general designer Sergei Mikheyev, and he had to give instructions on its unloading from an An-124 Ruslan cargo aircraft by phone. When he finally made it to London, it transpired that technical support experts and test pilots had no visas. Colleagues from the Tupolev design bureau helped Mikheyev unpack the helicopter, and assembly it for the exhibition. But he had no right to fly it, and had to put a notice on the windscreen: "Sorry, we cannot fly because..."
CNN reporters saw the notice, and staged a huge row. Everyone was talking about "insidious rivals." The Brits immediately provided the visas, but the pilots arrived in Farnborough when the air show was about to close.

This is how Sergei Mikheyev and his team started learning the seamy side of the world arms market. It appeared that some arm producers would stop at nothing to prevent their rivals from scoring success. Sometimes, these attempts border on a joke. I was involved in one of these myself.

At the time, I was working for a newspaper which issued the first joint Russian-American publication entitled "We." Materials were prepared in Moscow and Washington, D.C., and printed in the United States. Color print was not used for weeklies in Russia in the early 1990s. The KA-50 general designer and I decided to write an article about two helicopters - the Russian Kamov vs. the American Apache. We compared the characteristics mentioned in ad booklets. The Shark surpassed the An-64 Apache in cruise speed and some other indicators. The Apache was better fitted our for night operations. This was an unbiased comparison.

We were very surprised to see the proofs which arrived from Washington. All characteristics of our Ka-50 were downgraded compared to the Apache. They quoted the Shark's cruise speed with Apache' attack speed, which is bound to be higher than in normal flight. We showed these official documents to the Russian editor. He corrected everything in our presence and sent the proofs back to the U.S. But the newspaper was published with the U.S.-preferred figures.