Although Nikolai Kamov’s helicopter design bureau was, in some respects, eclipsed by the pioneering work done by the Mil plant, headed by the engineer Mikhail Mil, Kamov was responsible for ...

The Kamov KA-52 Alligator first took to the skies in 1997, but began full production in 2008. However, its design goes back to the 1980s. The KA-52 is actually a heavily modified and upgraded ...

In 1953, the USSR started the development of a new type of heavy-lift helicopter. Both Mil and Kamov were selected to come up with designs and the race was on to develop what would be at the time ...

The other major group of tailless helicopters involves utilizing multiple contra-rotating propellers in the same mast, with one famous example being the Kamov Ka-50 series.

The fearsome Ka-52 was designed by the Kamov Design Bureau, a division of Russian Helicopters, and cost upwards of $16 million. It's a two-seat version derived from the Ka-50 attack helicopter.

Russian Kamov Ka-52 attack helicopters over Moscow's Red Square in June 2020. ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images 2022-11-13T22:47:00Z Share. Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link. An icon ...

The Russian air force’s 11 attack helicopter brigades and regiments—together operating around 100 Kamov Ka-52s, 80 Mil Mi-28s and 150 Mil Mi-24s—have had a hard war.

Kamov previously designed the highly capable KA-50 and 52 families, both of which are robust, sturdy helicopters. This next airframe, which is likely just a prototype—if it exists at all—has ...

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The Defiant isn’t the first coaxial helicopter: the Russian Kamov Ka-80 sports two rotors above each other, and Chinook helicopters also use two large rotors that spin in different directions.

The bureau first specialized in the production of helicopters for the navy. Its first Kamov prototype, the Ka-8, proposed in 1944, was intended for navy communication and reconnaissance.