Kamov KA-50

[IFMU]

Hi all,

The wikipedia entry for the KA-50 says its top speed is 350 kph. Is this right?

-- IFMU

[wheatbix]

From a quick google search it would appear that figure is roughly correct, although i suspect as it's a military helicopter, the absolute figure isnt known (or revealed??).

http://www.military.cz/russia/air/helicopters/Ka_50/ka50_en.htm

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/row/ka-50.htm

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/helicopter-m/ka50/

There's slight variation amongst the figures, but they are all above 310kmh.

[IFMU]

Thanks wheatbix. I had seen some of the other figures. I've also seen figures on other machines that I knew were a product of marketing, and were duplicated by the media and on the internet. So I was trying to figure out if the flood of >300 kph figures were spawned from a single marketeer, or if it was real.

-- IFMU