Russian Air Force Photos and Video (NO DISCUSSION)

[Namenlos Ein]

 

 

 

 

[Griffin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZLcEunhPeUw

[topol-m]

 

[Flаnker]

Russian Air Force

[SergeyL]

Su-34

 

[SergeyL]

Утконосы

 

 

[Namenlos Ein]

Torzhok, 2011

 

 

 

 

 

http://4044415.livejournal.com/79328.html

[LARGE]

sad story on the third picture. These have flown just recently in 2010... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ka-50_helicopters_over_Moscow.jpg

[tietze]

sad story on the third picture. These have flown just recently in 2010... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ka-50_helicopters_over_Moscow.jpg

 

Care to elaborate - scrapped?

[LARGE]

by the look of it they aint going nowhere anymore..

[FoxElite]

i feel sad for the Shark......

[karambiatos]

they should put them in a museum or at least one of them instead of letting them rot like that

[tietze]

Maybe - you never know who can find some application for those machines ;-)

[Kaktus29]

problem is Army decided for twin-seat shark.. so the single seat which they made 4 i think are left to well not rot exactly, but left in strategic reserve. .their rotors are safely put away, most of the chopper is protected from the elements and unless there is extreme need for choppers this thing will be like this..mothballed ..

 

as long as Ka-52 get produced in larger numbers then Ka-50 can rest in peace knowing it did the job good enough to convince the army not to abandon his cousin at least..

[Lucas_From_Hell]

They're probably sitting there for spares.

 

There were 10 of them built, not 4, maybe those are older aircraft? I'd find it unusual if they put them on reserve since they received 3 Ka-50s in 2009.

 

Just a sidenote, they aren't operated by the army, all of the Army aviation was transferred to the Air Force command.

 

Wikipedia has it that the Ka-50 was assigned to special forces support operations, but not sure if whoever wrote it meant the Ka-50 or Ka-52, or if the information is reliable at all.

[Ich666]

They could let us take a spin if they dont need them anymore... ;)

[LARGE]

As far I as i know Ka 52 is used as a command center and guidance of Mi 28. Its like one Ka 52 and a few mi 28 in a group. And ka 50.. well its not in any use..

[Namenlos Ein]

The demonstration of the Ka-50's flight capabilities.

 

Ka-50Sh(N) №18, 05/13/2013

http://russianplanes.net/id107168

 

 

 

 

Ka-50 №26 ("Last flight: 05/15/2009").

 

Mi-28N.

 

 

[SergeyL]

Su-24M

 

[JG14_Smil]

 

Wikipedia has it that the Ka-50 was assigned to special forces support operations, but not sure if whoever wrote it meant the Ka-50 or Ka-52, or if the information is reliable at all.

 

Sounds a lot more glorious than "scrapped for parts". :)

[SergeyL]

Su-34

 

[SergeyL]

Su-34

 

[TimeKilla]

Sounds a lot more glorious than "scrapped for parts". :)

 

Is the KA-50 now just sitting around collecting dust on Russian airbases not even inside a hangar so sad to see.

[Lucas_From_Hell]

If our pessimistic guesses are right, it's pretty upsetting indeed.

 

Those photos are from 2011 though, maybe they were undergoing repairs or upgrades of some sort (I've often seen operational aircraft being serviced looking like that in hangars; Torzhok is a training/testing facility so heavens know what's up there).

 

In the photo that says "Last Flight DD/MM/2009", the inspection also dates from 2009, we've seen it airborne after that in 2010. In both the 2009 and 2011 photos, the aircraft look the same (seemingly abandoned, basically).

 

They might just keep them outdoors, maybe the hangars are/were busy (or there weren't hangars)-

 

OK, decided to investigate. Check GoogleMaps everyone. Type Torzhok in the search bar and find the helicopter base (it'll already be in the frame), then look about. As you can see, no hangars, no nothing basically, all helicopters (and a truckload of 'em, that) are out in the open. The Ka-50s are on the south-west parking areas, you can see the black Ka-50 without the rotors on the first parking space from the centre, sitting tail to tail with another Ka-50 (with its rotors on). It might be Nº26. The image is from 2013, by the way.

 

Does anyone have any reliable proper info on it?

 

I'd risk a guess and say most aircraft are operational, with some left for parts - cannibalising happens to all of us at some point after all.

Edited May 26, 2013 by Lucas_From_Hell

[Esac_mirmidon]

Better than guessing the fate of few remaining Ka-50, think that they grow into a better thing, the Ka-52.

 

Now the spirit of the Ka-50 flows inside Ka-52 helicopters, improved, stronger and bigger.