Engineering:Kamov Ka-65
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| National origin | Russia |
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| First flight | 2025 (expected) |
Kamov Ka-65 Minoga (Russian: "Минога"; Lamprey) is a project for a new helicopter to replace Ka-27 in the Russian Navy by Kamov.
Design and development
The Helicopter is being developed as part of Minoga program ordered on 28 November 2014 by the Russian Defence Ministry.[1]
In June 2019 a photo of what appears to be a prototype of the Minoga has appeared online.[2][3][4]
At the Army-2020 forum Russian Helicopters holding have signed a contract with the Russian Defence Ministry for the first stage of R&D work on the advanced Minoga helicopter. The head of the company, Andrey Boginskiy has said that at the first stage of the R&D, it is planned to create a Testbed, perform ground testing of systems, assemblies, and structural elements, and its completion is scheduled for 2023.[5]
It is planned that the Minoga will replace the Ka-27 helicopters in all areas of their application: in anti-submarine, search and rescue, assault and transport variants, as well as in airborne early warning version.[1]
As of 2020, flight tests of the helicopter were scheduled to begin in 2025 or 2026.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "How Russia Is Modernizing Its Naval Aviation Fleet | Aviation Week Network". https://aviationweek.com/defense/budget-policy-operations/how-russia-modernizing-its-naval-aviation-fleet.
- ↑ "Опытный образец вертолёта "Минога" появится после 2020 года » Авиация России" (in ru-RU). 2019-06-05. https://aviation21.ru/opytnyj-obrazec-vertolyota-minoga-poyavitsya-posle-2020-goda/.
- ↑ "Russia's Minoga Maritime Helo In Advanced Stage Of Construction | Aviation Week Network". https://aviationweek.com/defense/russias-minoga-maritime-helo-advanced-stage-construction.
- ↑ Karnozov, Vladimir. "Kamov's Ka-65 Minoga Breaks Cover | AIN" (in en). https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2019-06-10/kamovs-ka-65-minoga-breaks-cover.
- ↑ "Подписан контракт на опытно-конструкторские работы по противолодочному вертолёту "Минога" » Авиация России" (in ru-RU). 2020-08-25. https://aviation21.ru/podpisan-kontrakt-na-opytno-konstruktorskie-raboty-po-protivolodochnomu-vertolyotu-minoga/.
- ↑ Сычев, Василий. "Первый летный образец «Миноги» создадут к 2025 году" (in ru). https://nplus1.ru/news/2020/09/29/helicopter.
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