The Ukrainians may have found another way to shoot down the Russians’ attack helicopters.
A video that circulated online on Wednesday depicts a Ukrainian first-person-view racing drone, presumably laden with explosives, apparently trying to intercept a Russian air force Kamov Ka-52 attack helicopter—and nearly succeeding.
But a Ka-52 crew can’t always rely on its speed to save it. The helicopter’s best weapon is the 90-pound Vikhr anti-tank guided missile, which is a so-called “beam-rider.” To use a Vikhr, a Ka-52 crew must hover a few hundred feet off the ground, shoot a laser beam at the target from as far as six miles away then fire the missile—which follows the laser all the way to the target.
A Ka-52 has countermeasures against laser-guided missiles. But the countermeasures don’t always work—against an RBS-70. The 190-pound, two-person air-defense system fires a supersonic missile as far as 5.5 miles. Nearly as far as a Vikhr ranges. Now the hovering Kamov crews probably need to start worrying about FPV drones in addition to RBS-70s and other air-defense systems. “It's only a matter of time until an FPV drone downs an attack helicopter mid-air,”
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