Russian Attack Helicopter Kamov Ka-52 Alligator Hokum

Kamov Ka-50 Black Shark (Чёрная акула; Chornaya Akula, 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 being used as a heavily armed scout helicopter. Pilot: Cherednichenko Thumb image by Alberto Celsan In the early 1980s, while the comparative tests of the V-80 (Ka-50 prototype) and the Mi-28 were still ongoing, the Kamov design team came up wit