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Russian attack helicopters appear to be taking a more active role in repelling Ukraine’s repeated drone attacks on the country’s territories.
During one of the recent Ukrainian attack on Russia, a Ka-52 attack helicopter took done a fixed-wing suicide drone with its mobile semi-rigid 30 mm Shipunov 2A42 cannon. Video footage showing the successful interception was posted to social networks on May 30, although no location or date were provided.
The 2a42 lowest rate of fire is 200–300 rounds per minute and can get as high as 550–800 rounds per minute with a muzzle velocity of 960 meters per second. The cannon’s effective firing range is 2,000 meters, but can fire at targets up to 4,000 meters away.
Typically, the Ka-52 carries some 460 30 mm rounds for the cannon, which has a dual-feeding system, allowing it to fire both armor-piercing and high-explosive fragmentation ammunition.
In addition to its powerful cannon, the Ka-52 can be armed with Igla-V heat-seeking air-to-air missiles to hunt down drones and other aerial targets from up to five kilometers. The helicopters’ primary anti-tank weapon, the 9K121 Vikhr laser-guided missile, can be also used to engage such slow moving aerial targets with a range of 10-12 kilometers.
Footage released just a day earlier showed a Ka-52 engaging a Ukrainian suicide drone with a missile, most likely an Igla-V, somewhere over Russia.
Helicopters are very suitable for intercepting drones, as they can fly at low altitudes and speeds which make them very suitable for intercepting drones. Russian attack helicopters, like the Ka-52, are equipped with advanced electro-optical systems that are capable of detecting such slow and small aerial targets.
According to Russian media, attack helicopters have already intercepted dozens of Ukrainian drones, proving their worth in this task.
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a warning : once again, we will have the desperate attempts of propagandists to hurt the morale of ‘the other side’. because their only way of not to be completely defeated is to somehow have psychological effect. but their inability to make a compelling argument of any complexity lead to failure. maybe it’s time to understand that they are not perceived as the shining city on the hill anymore but as the cesspool of corruption and idiocy that they are.
yes, but what do you do with people that try to censor newtons laws ?
macron censors newton laws?
no report about gay zaur gurtsiev being killed at his gay meeting? 😆😆😆
fake propaganda
a warming: once again i will share my farts w/you because they are the smelliest and most delicious on the internet!
not only are you losing, but what you are doing is useless. that is the definition of pathetic.
zaur gurtsiev, the butcher of mariupol (20000 murdered civilians) got killed while meeting his gay friend muahahahaha 😆 😆 😆
even the shills at human rights watch only put the figure of mariupol dead at 8000+/-. at what point do you have to accept the fact that the ukrainian program operated by the americans for the last eighty years has been a catastrophe for ukrainians?
mariupol is largely rebuilt by russia for russian people . how modern will the steel plant be when it reopens ?
the true figure was probably 6 million, like the 6 million beheaded babies cooked in ovens and the 6 million raped women, and the 6 gazillion gassed jews.
proud gay boys reports: russia not only has the largest gay community in the world, but also the fastest-growing 😆 😆 😆
if that’s so, then why are the wokesters in the us empire incessantly screeching about the unrelenting assault on the fudgepackers by the wicked hater putin?
russians are wonderful liars😂. all this sf crap after russian military has been humiliated thousands of times in ukraine.
how has the ukrainian army done since the 2014 us coup in kiev? ato went on for eight years and resulted in the loss of thousands of ukrainian citizens through flight to other countries, huge swathes of territory forfeited to russia, thousands of dead and provoked the smo, which has amplified all of those aspects of the destruction of the failed ukrainian cia project. get a grip, dipshit.
humiliated by russian victory the feminized amerikan tantrums—luv it
maybe that;s why chumpo and the ukronazis are begging putin for a ceasefire.
after 20 yrs sodomy by taliban we are laughed at by pygmy army
i think they should use something less powerful, they fired over 50 rounds, probably they did more damage with those over the ground, than the drone itself if it reached the target… maybe a machine-gun gunpod? i think a pair of 7.62 or a 12.7 would be enough. anyway, all this reminds more and more the great v-1 hunt in 1944…