Source: Military Update
Ka-52 Attack Helicopter
Source: Kamov Ka-50 - Wikipedia
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Length: 16 m (52 ft 6 in)
- Height: 4.93 m (16 ft 2 in)
- Empty weight: 7,700 kg (16,976 lb)
- Gross weight: 9,800 kg (21,605 lb)
- Max takeoff weight: 10,800 kg (23,810 lb)
- Powerplant: 2 × Klimov VK-2500 turboshaft engines, 1,800 kW (2,400 shp) each
- Main rotor diameter: 2× 14.5 m (47 ft 7 in)
- Main rotor area: 330.3 m2 (3,555 sq ft) contra-rotating 3-bladed main rotors
Performance
- Maximum speed: 315 km/h (196 mph, 170 kn)
- Cruise speed: 270 km/h (170 mph, 150 kn)
- Never exceed speed: 350 km/h (220 mph, 190 kn)
- Range: 545 km (339 mi, 294 nmi)
- Combat range: 470 km (290 mi, 250 nmi)
- Ferry range: 1,160 km (720 mi, 630 nmi)
- Service ceiling: 5,500 m (18,000 ft)
- Rate of climb: 12 m/s (2,400 ft/min)
- Disk loading: 30 kg/m2 (6.1 lb/sq ft)
- Power/mass: 0.33 kW/kg (0.20 hp/lb)
Armament
- Guns: 1× mobile semi-rigid 30 mm Shipunov 2A42 cannon (460 rounds total, dual feeding AP or HE-Frag)
- Hardpoints: 4 (6 on Ka-52) under-wing hardpoints, plus 2 on wingtips for countermeasures or air-to-air missiles with a capacity of 2,000 kg,with provisions to carry combinations of:
- Rockets: 80 × 80 mm S-8 rockets and 20 × 122 mm S-13 rocket,
- Missiles: 2 × APU-6 Missile racks, able to accommodate a total of 12 × 9K121 Vikhr anti-tank missiles, Vympel R-73 (NATO: AA-11 Archer) air-to-air missiles, Kh-25 semi-active laser guided tactical air-to-ground missiles
- Bombs: 4 × 250 kg (550 lb) bombs or 2 × 500 kg (1,100 lb) bombs,
- Other: 23 mm UPK-23-250 gun pods (240 rounds each), 500 L (130 US gal) external fuel tanks. Reportedly, twin Igla light air-to-air missile launchers under each wingtip countermeasure pod (total 4 missiles).[16]
- Two pods on the wingtips with flare and chaff countermeasure dispensers, 4 UV-26 dispensers each (total 32 chaff/flare cartridges in each pod)
