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Alexey Mikheyev
Alexey Mikheyev
Ka-52 being learnt in Torzhok
As was reported by Take-off in its
February 2011 issue (p. 33), fielding
of the advanced Kamov Ka-52 roundthe-clock
multirole combat helicopters
with the Russian Army Aviation
kicked off in December last year.
Their series production was launched
by the Sazykin Progress plant in
Arsenyev. The first four productionstandard
aircraft were delivered to
the Russian Army Aviation Combat
and Conversion Training Centre
(CCTC) in the town of Torzhok, and
the acceptance ceremony took place
on 28 December 2010.
Having assembled and prepared
the machines after their delivery
from the manufacturer plant and
having trained flying and ground
crews, CCTC in Torzhok launched
flight operations on the Ka-52s early
in February this year. To date, military
pilots have flown new helicopters not
only in daytime but also at night and
under adverse weather conditions
as well owing to the cutting-edge
avionics suite equipping the Ka-52.
It includes a gyro-stabilised electrooptical
system, night vision goggles
(NVG) and a radar that ensures the
helicopter’s 24-hour all-weather
combat capability.
To facilitate and speed up the
conversion of aircrews to the
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Ka-52, the Dinamika scientific and
technical services centre in the
Moscow Region has developed the
KTE-52 full-mission crew simulator,
the company reported in a news
release late in March. Kamov’s
order for developing the simulator
was landed last year. In addition to
the KTE-52 simulator, the complex,
allowing the full cycle of air and
ground crew training, includes an
automated basic ‘ground school’
system.
The KTE-52 allows training and
conversion training of aircrews for
the Ka-52 as far as all basic flight,
navigation and weapons use tasks
are concerned. It enables aircrews to
hone their skills in routine operating
modes and in an emergency, e.g. a
materiel failure, a piloting error and
foul weather.
The Progress-made simulator
mock-up is a dead ringer for the real
cockpit of the production helicopter
in terms of internal dimensions and
position of the controls, control
panels, consoles, etc. The Ka-52’s
real controls are used to simulate
the control stations. The simulator’s
visual system a six-channel projector
and partial dome display complex. It
provides angles of view ranging from
-90 deg. to +90 deg. in azimuth and
from -30 deg. to +53 deg. in elevation.
To simulate night vision modes and
the use of NVGs, there is a software/
hardware complex comprising a
computer and outside-world image
generation software tailored to the
peculiarities of the NVG imagery,
and virtual reality (VR) goggles and
a laser tracker as well. The simulator
also includes an onboard acoustics
simulation system.
The KTE-52 simulator was
developed by Dinamika in cooperation
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with Kamov, which provided it with the
data package, and Konstanta Design
LLC, which furnished the outsideworld
image generator. The company
has launched assembly a second
Ka-52 full-mission simulator, and the
Russian Army Aviation will now receive
a sophisticated training aid along with
advanced combat helicopters.
“Ka-52 simulators will become a
key component of the programme
on training pilots to fly latest combat
helicopters of the Russian Air
Force that took delivery of its four
first production-standard aircraft
in 2010”, reads Dinamika’s news
release. “Progress is slated to deliver
10 more production-standard Ka-52s
in 2011, with the output expected
to be maintained in 2012–2013 as
well. Overall, construction of 36
Ka-52 helicopters is stipulated by
the contract awarded by the Russian
Defence Ministry in 2009”.
Fielding of production-standard
Ka-52s with a RusAF’s Chernigovka
air base in the Russian Far East
started in May.
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Alexey Mikheyev
CSTS Dinamika