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Originally Posted by indianguy4u
Hi garry,
How does kamov faces up against apache? I had seen one prog on discovery about apache that it could destroy a small town singlehandedly.
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Yes but Appache carries less weapon load, has slightly less speed, slightly lower cieling, slightly lower range and much lower maneuvrability. In addition to it its radar has less range and capabilities. I am not sure here but Hellfire missiles probably have less range than ataka-9. It does not have system which allows flying full speed only few meters above the ground with automatic terrain scanning. Lastly it does not support ejecting for its crew..... and slightly less armor plating.
its strong arguments would be - battle proven + requres less training for pilots due to simplier one rotor system and availability of two pilots.
In battle, Appache was designed to fight ground targets while Black Shark was assumed to protect tank colunms from attack helicopters and CAS..... its radar is made to detect and track air targets and shoot R-27M missiles. Adding there VERY high maneuvrability, which allows it to turn 180 in just 2 seconds on full speed it is made to kill helicopters and slow CAS.
There are week sides of Black Shark
1) Complicated usage requires long period of training for pilot
2) sophisticated co-axial system means higher volume of maintenance hours....
3) it is not open architecture for using weapons and radar.....
4) co-axial system means that you can not dip down on high speed and autorotation mode like aircraft does.... it may lead to overlapping of blades and death of a pilot.
5) Black Shark price will probably be higher than Longbow......
ps. Higher weapon load means that Black Shark may destroy a bit larger town than Longbow......