Kamov


Today Kamov company is a modern growing entity, which provides designing, construction, flight tests as well as serial production of helicopters. The production range of the helicopters designed by KAMOV company can be divided into three main development trends.

We are achieving the most important goals - demand, efficiency, operation safety, financial affordability – while uniting simplicity, compactness, power-to-weight ratio and aerodynamic symmetry.



Sergey Miheev,

Chief designer of the Kamov experimental design bureau

The first trend unites combat and naval helicopter-mounted systems, which are produced serially for improving combat effectiveness of the Navy ships. It includes:

  • Ka-27 – heavy ordnance helicopter in anti-submarine and S&R versions;
  • Ka-28 – export version constructed on the basis of Ka-27;
  • Ka-31 – early warning helicopter – one of the latest developments of KAMOV company in the sphere of helicopter intelligence and surveillance. Its operation as a mobile ship-based surveillance and reporting system improves the efficiency of combat operations of the Navy ships.

The second trend unites combat helicopter systems for improving combat effectiveness of the ground forces and includes:

  • Ka-50 Black Shark – a single-seat serial combat helicopter;
  • Ka-52 Alligator – future-generation all-weather two-seat combat helicopter, equipped with modern radioelectronic system and powerful armament;
  • Ka-60 Kasatka (Killer Whale) – tactical assault troop-carrying helicopter. It is designed for special missions in the interest of army aviation and ground forces command.

The third trend unites civil helicopters for extreme service and includes:

  • Ka-32А11ВС – multipurpose helicopter of middle dimension with maximum weight of 11 tons and external load capacity of up to 5 tons. It is an indispensable fire-fighter, rescuer, constructor and fine wood logger.
  • Ka-226 – light multipurpose helicopter and its follow-on Ka-226T. Both helicopters are designed for the passenger transportation and freight hauling with external load sling system (from 1.3 up to 1.6 tons). While employing quick-detachable generic modules armed with various kinds of special equipment, the helicopters can be used in passenger, transport, S&R, patrol and VIP configurations.
  • Ka-62 – medium multipurpose helicopter of the new generation. It is designed for regular commercial passenger carriage (up to 14 people), compact freight hauling inside the cockpit (up to 2 tons) and on external load sling system (up to 2.7 tons) within the extending off-shore area and is able to land on oil platforms.
  • Ka-92 – high-speed helicopter of the new generation with rigid coaxial rotors, designed for providing regular commercial passenger carriage with comfort (up to 30 people) within the distance of up to 1400km.



Helicopters of KAMOV company are the only coaxial-rotor helicopters in the world

Distinctive features of coaxial helicopters
Coaxial-rotor system, which possesses advanced lifting properties, made it possible to put into practice aerodynamical, tactical, exploitative and constructive advantages of the coaxial helicopter in comparison with the standard single-rotor analogues due to:

  • aerodynamic symmetry;
  • absence of the powerplant output consumption for helicopter trim balance;
  • absence of the antitorque tail rotor.
Aerodynamically symmetric helicopter:
  • is less sensitive to the external influence of the force and direction of wind during the takeoff, landing, hovering and vertical maneuvering;
  • has low vibration level;
  • is much simpler in terms of piloting and training due to the low level of carriage loading.
Absence of the powerplant output consumption for helicopter trim balance during the flight provides:
  • considerable advantage in power, degree of efficiency, freight-carrying capacity and climbing capacity;
  • safe maneuvering under the conditions of restricted space and modern densely built-up cities.
Absence of the antitorque tail rotor allows:
  • to reduce overall size of the helicopter and inertia moments;
  • to remove restrictions of the angular velocity;
  • to perform takeoff and landing from the ship deck-landing platforms of limited size;
  • to eliminate the loss of control of the helicopter during the flight with the damaged tail section;
  • to avoid the risk of damaging land-based communication lines and traumatizing the ground staff with the revolving tail rotor.



KAMOV company brought coaxial-rotor helicopters to the serial production and practical application, competing successfully on the market with the leading helicopter manufacturers of the world. The experience of continuous operation shows that due to the enumerated advantages the KAMOV helicopters are maximally equipped for the operation in difficult geographic and climatic conditions of hard-to-reach areas such as highlands, north latitudes, tropics with hot and humid climate and water areas.