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The Kamov Ka-50 Black Shark (NATO reporting
name: "Hokum A") is a single-seat Russian
attack helicopter with the distinctive
coaxial rotor system of the Kamov design
bureau. It was designed in the 1980s and
adopted for service in the Russian army in
1995. The Ka-50 is unique as an attack
helicopter, in that it is the world's first
and only single seat attack helicopter, the
first coaxial attack helicopter, and the
first attack helicopter with zero-zero
ejection seat.(www.wikipedia.org)
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The Ka-50 is a Russian single-seat attack
helicopter, designed as a gunship. It was
designed by the Kamov company starting in the
1980s and adopted for service in the Russian
army in 1995. It is manufactured by the
Progress company of Arseniev. Its NATO
reporting name is Hokum A; the first
prototype was nicknamed "Werewolf", however
Kamov's official name for the type is "Black
Shark". As the Soviet Union's collapse vastly
reduced military spending before Ka-50 could
go into full-scale production, 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. Reportedly Ka-50's development
took place in record time, as Kamov had the
forethought of placing liaison engineers at
major component suppliers and systems
subcontractors. 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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The Kamov Ka-50 Black Shark (NATO reporting
name: "Hokum A") is a single-seat Russian
attack helicopter with the distinctive
coaxial rotor system of the Kamov design
bureau. It was designed in the 1980s and
adopted for service in the Russian army in
1995. It is currently manufactured by the
Progress company of Arseniev. Kamov also
designed a two-seat variant, the Kamov Ka-52
Alligator (NATO reporting name: "Hokum B").
During the late-1990s, Israeli Air Industries
developed a tandem-seat cockpit version with
Kamov, the Kamov Ka-50-2 Erdogan (Turkish for
"Born Warrior"), to compete against the AH-64
Apache and the AH-1 SuperCobra in Turkey's
competition to select an attack helicopter.
The Ka-50 is unique as an attack helicopter
in that it is the world's first and only
single seat attack helicopter, the first
coaxial attack helicopter, and the first
attack helicopter with zero-zero ejection
seat developed by NPP Zvezda.
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The Kamov Ka-50 Black Shark (NATO reporting
name: "Hokum A") is a single-seat Russian
attack helicopter with the distinctive
coaxial rotor system of the Kamov design
bureau. It was designed in the 1980s and
adopted for service in the Russian army in
1995. It is currently manufactured by the
Progress company of Arseniev. Kamov also
designed a two-seat variant, the Kamov Ka-52
Alligator (NATO reporting name: "Hokum B").
During the late-1990s, Israeli Air Industries
developed a tandem-seat cockpit version with
Kamov, the Kamov Ka-50-2 Erdogan (Turkish for
"Born Warrior"), to compete against the AH-64
Apache and the AH-1 SuperCobra in Turkey's
competition to select an attack helicopter.
The Ka-50 is unique as an attack helicopter
in that it is the world's first and only
single seat attack helicopter, the first
coaxial attack helicopter, and the first
attack helicopter with zero-zero ejection
seat.
The Hokum was designed to be small, fast, and
agile to improve survivability and lethality.
For minimal weight and size (thus maximal
speed and agility) it was -- uniquely among
gunships -- to be operated by a single pilot
only. Kamov concluded after thorough research
of helicopter combat in Afghanistan and other
war zones that the typical attack mission
phases of low-level approach, pop-up target
acquisition, and weapon launch don't
simultaneously demand navigation,
maneuvering, and weapons operation of the
pilot; and thus with well-designed support
automation a single pilot can indeed carry
out the entire mission alone. However, it is
still an unanswered question whether in
practice the rank and file of Black Shark
pilots would nevertheless suffer from excess
fatigue from this combined workload.
Like other Kamov's helicopters, it features
Kamov's characteristic contra-rotating
co-axial rotor system, which removes the need
for the entire tail-rotor assembly and
improves the aircraft's aerobatic qualities
-- it can perform loops, rolls, and "the
funnel" (circle-strafing) where the aircraft
maintains a line-of-sight to target while
flying circles of varying altitude,
elevation, and airspeed around it. Using two
rotors means that a smaller rotor with slower
moving rotor tips can be used compared to a
single rotor design. Since the speed of the
advancing rotor tip is a primary limitation
to the maximum speed of a helicopter, this
allows a faster maximum speed than
helicopters such as the AH-64. The
elimination of the tail rotor is a
qualitative advantage because the
torque-countering tail rotor can waste up to
30% of engine power. (To begin with, Black
Shark's Klimovs offer more shaft horsepower,
some 2200 shp apiece, than e.g. Apache's
General Electric turboshafts, at 1890 shp,
which contributes to the superb performance.)
Furthermore, the vulnerable boom and rear
gearbox are fairly common causes of
helicopter losses in combat (as proven in
Vietnam); the Black Shark's entire
transmission presents a comparatively small
target to ground fire. Kamov maintains that
the co-axial drive assembly is built to
survive hits from 23mm ammunition like the
other vital parts of the helicopter. The zero
native torque also allows the aircraft to be
fairly immune to wind strength and direction,
and to have an unsurpassed turn rate in all
travel speed envelopes.
As the single seat configuration was
considered too revolutionary to be discovered
by NATO, false windows were painted on the
first two prototypes. The "windows" evidently
worked as the first western reports of the
aircraft were wildly inaccurate. According to
the Air Force Magazine Soviet Aerospace
Almanac 1989, the "DoD states that this
helicopter has not been observed carrying
antitank guided weapons. Instead, it is
thought to have a primary air-to-air role (an
assessment that is not universally
accepted)... Like other combat helicopters,
'hokum; has a crew of two, in tandem, with an
elevated rear seat."
The Ka-50 was the first helicopter fitted
with an ejector seat for improved pilot
survivability; this was also seen as a
psychological factor enhancing the pilot's
combat courage. Before the rocket in the
K-37-800 ejection seat kicks in, rotor blades
are blown away by explosive charges in the
rotor disc and the canopy is similarly
jettisoned.
The first Ka-50 prototype was nicknamed
"Werewolf", however Kamov's official name for
the type is "Black Shark". As the Soviet
Union's collapse vastly reduced military
spending before Ka-50 could go into
full-scale production, a relatively small
number of these aircraft have been built.
Reportedly Ka-50's development took place in
record time, as Kamov had the forethought of
placing liaison engineers at major component
suppliers and systems subcontractors.
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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