Posted on 10/29/2008 9:02:00 PM PDT by Flavius
ussia has launched mass production of the Ka-52 strike helicopter nicknamed ‘the Alligator’. Based on the Ka-50 ‘Black Shark”, the new version is designed as a commander’s vehicle and has several features for combat coordination.
Ka-52s will be manufactured at the Progress factory in the city of Arsenyevsk in Russia’s Far East. The producer hopes up to 30 Alligators will be completed by 2012 and says the aircraft has great export potential.
The series was launched 10 years behind the initial schedule. The Ka-52 made its maiden flight back in 1997, but lack of finance stopped it from production.
(Excerpt) Read more at russiatoday.com ...
Why would you name a helicopter after a reptile?
“Hulloooooooo, zeeba neighba!”
Cobra?
great for export, translated: “2-bit thugs and tyrannts everywhere will buy them thinking that they are a match to US weapon-systems... only to later discover (fatally) that they are in fact — just a an f’ing joke.”
COUNTERMOVE. CHECKMATE.
If hovers a tad wobbly perhaps a control issue
and has the FLIR turrent mounted atop the cockpit inches away fro the rotor blades just the thing for sagging rotors to contact.
Stealth nope ... does it have some beautiful moves for powered flight ... YEAH.
CANCELLED. In 2004.
You're joking right? Damn, that was one sweet helicopter.
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