Login

 

Forgot password?
submarines shipbuilding Black Sea Fleet exercise Pacific Fleet Russian Navy Northern Fleet strategy cooperation Ukraine visits Russia piracy missiles trials Sevastopol history Sevmash presence contracts drills Baltic Fleet industry incident anti-piracy shipyards Gulf of Aden frigate training Somalia India developments reforms opinion Borei policy procurements Russia - India aircraft carrier Crimea arms exports USA St. Petersburg tests France financing Bulava Yury Dolgoruky Serdiukov US Navy cruise Mediterranean Zvezdochka NATO innovations Indian Navy United Shipbuilding Corporation Medvedev Arctic agreements commission Admiralteyskie Verfi Admiral Gorshkov Vladivostok Mistral accident hijacking corvettes overhaul anniversary Russia - France Admiral Kuznetsov Vysotsky Rosoboronexport ceremony event Yantar Severomorsk defense order negotiations conflict aircraft China deployment naval aviation Black Sea investigations Putin Varyag coast guard Vikramaditya Novorossiysk landing craft crime Far East marines meeting Severnaya Verf scandals memorials Syria traditions statistics South Korea Japan escort Yasen Neustrashimy tenders convoys Marshal Shaposhnikov Admiral Chabanenko Ukrainian Navy Chirkov problems Severodvinsk reinforcement tension technology firings tragedy search and rescue Caspian Flotilla upgrade hostages provocation Baltic Sea Moskva Almaz frontier service court Turkey keel laying Dmitry Donskoy rumors shipwreck Petr Veliky Kaliningrad World War II death helicopters Admiral Panteleyev Kilo class Atalanta Norway Rubin Admiral Vinogradov patrols Russia-Norway delivery
Search
Our friends russian navy weapons world sailing ships
 
Tell a friend Print version

Kamov to Make First Helicopters for Mistral Ships in 2013

Kamov to Make First Helicopters for Mistral Ships in 2013 30.10.2012
Text: Vzglyad
Photo: Western Military District Press Service
First batch-produced helicopters Ka-52K for Mistral-class amphibious assault ships will roll off production line in 2013, said Sergei Mikheev, chief designer of the Kamov bureau.

"First batch of Ka-52K will be completed in 2013. By arrival of the first Mistral, we're ready to produce as many helicopters as defense ministry wants", Mikheev said reminding that one Mistral-class ship accommodates 16 helicopters, reports RIA Novosti.

As for him, ship-based version of the Ka-52 helicopter in many ways resembles the serial one except some "nuances" needed for overwater flights. "I mean ventilation issues, pilot suits, and some special-purpose instruments. One of the main distinctive features is folded rotor blades", Mikheev said.

He specified that designers were doing their best to expand batch production without serious changes. The chief designer emphasized that helicopters Ka-29/31 which would also be stationed on Mistrals needed neither refitting nor modernization. It is a standard ship-based helicopter in Russian Navy. "Size of Ka-29 is okay, they land on the deck and fit the elevators", Mikheev said.

As was reported on Sept 19, air wing consisting of 30 Ka-52K and Ka-29 helicopters will be formed for each of two Mistral-class ships built in France for Russian Navy.

Strength and type of on-board air groups will depend on certain situation and assigned tasks.

Construction of experimental helicopters Ka-52 Alligator is going on at the Progress plant (Primorsky Krai, Russia).

It was reported on Oct 22 that French shipyard STX France would launch the first Russian Mistral-class ship in Sept 2013.

Moscow and Paris signed the contract for two Mistral-class ships in June 2011. The contract value was EUR 1.2 bln.

The first landing ship for Russian Navy was laid down early in Feb 2012.

Russian Mistrals will bear names of Vladivostok and Sevastopol. All of them will be equipped with newest Russian attack and defense weapons, including supersonic cruise missiles.

On Oct 13, chief of Navy Development Planning Dept RADM Vasily Lyashok said that Mistral-class amphibious assault ships would be commissioned into Pacific Fleet in 2014 and 2015.

On Oct 1, Baltiysky Zavod Shipbuilding Ltd (St. Petersburg) began construction of the hull for the first out of two other Mistral ships to be build under French license.

In Aug 2012, Russia started manufacturing of experimental helicopters Ka-52K to be based on Mistral-class ships.

Russian Navy will start employment of crews for those ships on competition basis in 2013.

Back to the list





Back to news list