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Videos / KA-50: Awesome Single-seat Attack Helicopter
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Tagged with video, audio,black shark, KA-50, Kamov, Hokum A, Russia, Russian, Helicopter, army, single-seat attack, Werewolf, Havoc, Mi-28, Red Army, aircraft
Last Modified Oct 29, 2007 at 05:43 PM PDT by VLeonovViewed 227 time(s)
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This is such a mean machine used by the Russian army. Its profile kind of resembles a shark... no wonder it is nicknamed "Black Shark." Designed by the Kamov company in the 1980s and manufactured by Progress Company of Arseniev, it was adopted for service in the Russian army in 1995. Its NATO reporting name is Hokum A; the first prototype was nicknamed "Werewolf", however Kamov's official name for the type is "Black Shark".
A relatively small number of these aircraft have been built, even though it beat Mil's rival Mi-28 "Havoc" in virtually all the tests in the contest for the Red Army's next attack helicopter. Finally, Ka-50 and its modifications have been chosen as the special forces support helicopter while Mi-28 has become main army's gunship. The production of Ka-50 has been recommenced in 2006.
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