Victim of Ukrainian air defense: Russian "Aligator" Ka-52 reflected the tail-expert (video)

American observer Thomas Newdik explained that despite the damage to the tail part, the helicopter continued the flight because of the structural feature of the machine. The Russian helicopter Ka-52 "Alligator" in the Zaporozhye direction was hit by Ukrainian air defense systems, which resulted in the car lost the tail plumage. However, the helicopter did not fall to the ground, but continued movement, despite the lack of a vertical keel, which was rotated almost 90 degrees.

Thomas Newdik, a closer of the Corps, told the Corps Corps. He drew attention to the frames of the Russian helicopter, which, apparently, managed to land. News said that in the published video, in addition to a detached vertical keel, you can see a few items that the crew was thrown on the fly. It was probably fuel tanks and rocket capsules. The expert also suggested that the windshield was also injured, so Ka-52, the expert writes, was the victim of Ukrainian air defense.

"Let that, a shock helicopter crew, consisting of two people, has reason to be grateful for the design of his aircraft," the expert said. According to him, the helicopter did not fall after damage due to the structural feature of the machine. The fact is that a peculiar business card KA-52 is its unconventional cohabitant arrangement of the load-bearing screw, which eliminates the need to install a tail rotor.

In almost any other helicopter, damage to the tail unit of this level would be extremely serious consequences, New Dick emphasized. The expert explained that the tail screw provides counteraction to the main screws that rotate either clockwise or counterclockwise. And if it stops operating or the machine loses it, the helicopter will rotate in the opposite direction of the rotor, which will inevitably lead to a fall.

But KA-52 has cohabitant screws that allowed the car to continue the flight at low altitude. "Let it be there, we do not know why Ka-52 remained over Ukraine with a broken tail part, although we can say with some certainty that if they were flying on a helicopter of a different type, then the probability that the crew would return to the base , it would be much lower, "News wrote in graduation.