Yeah, i too am waiting to see pics of PAK-FA armed with RS-82 and RS-132.

IL-PAKFA ‘Stealthovik’ =)

Sorry to say, but for me Hermes is nothing more than another one myth of our military-industry. I’m reading about this missile all last 20 years(first time i read about it in the mid/late 1990’s – in the Military Parade journal), but it’s still the same paper-project without any concrete results in the form of, at least, flying prototypes and AFAIK, it still didn’t find any serious support in our MoD. So i’m pretty sceptical about this project. But of course, on paper it would be an ideal solution – and not only for choppers.

The question is, how often do you need that? Is all the stuff you’ve mentioned worth five times the unit cost?

Yes, i think it’s worth of this price, due to significant:

– increase of survivability of the much more expensive platform and its crew
– increase of the number of targets, which platfrom can destroy simultaniously
– increase of network-centric warfare capabilities
– higher chance to win an export contract))

UPD: completely forgot about our future UCAVs that of course will demand a lightweight missile with a high-off boresight capability while they’re loitering over combat zone. Our current ATGMs are badly restricted by requirement to be fired right into the command-beam. May be i’m wrong, but it’s pretty hard for my – to figure out how to fire beam-riders underneath UCAV loitering over combat zone.

Is there anyway to add/modify the Ka-52 with a movable gun mounting like the AH-64, Mi-28 and pretty much all major attack helos? IIRC, the Ka-52 was not considered by the IAF due to its gun limitation an final competition was between the AH-64E & Mi-28N which the AH-64E ultimately won.

AFAIK, Apache won that competition not because of its gun, but because of its more advanced sensor suite and missiles.

This is a pain in my ass, in the last 10-15 years – we have good rotary-wing platforms that completely lack F&F missiles, which would be competitive with nearly 20-years old AGM-114L and new JAGM and Brimstone. Something need to be done ASAP with this bad situation in our arsenal. Of course, Ataka and Vikhr’ are cheap as potatoes(in comparison to mentioned ATGM’s) but it’s time to move further than these old command-guided missiles.

Dammit!

Russian combat helicopter crashes in Syria — defense ministry

More:
http://tass.ru/en/defense/868922

RIP

By exemple : AirForces Monthly december 2004, article by Andrei FOMIN, pictures by Andrey ZINCHUK and Aleksey MIKHEYEV, pages 76 to 82.

As i’ve said, there was no Mi-28N at those exercises. So how could Ka-50 beat Mi-28N during these exercises if there was no Mi-28N? :confused:

So, now it’s Kyrgyzstan – ok.)) Guys, can anyone provide any article which is covering this story?

Yes, problem was that it was not possible to convert the ka-50 into a classic tandem cockpit for problem of balance and that going twin-seat as it was the chosen solution implied to reduce its protection level, hence the initial preference for Mi-28.

Well, Kamov proposed its Ka-50-2 “Erdogan”(funny name, yeah?))) to Turkey in 1990’s. Of course it was a glass cannon(i mean, canopy) but still – there was a tandem variant in the Kamov’s pipe.

Probably it was better so: Mi-28 can fit well its intended role, while Ka-52 add a new array of possibilities to the armed force as a whole.

We will see when Mil’ will introduce its Mi-28NM.