The Ka-52 helicopter repelled 18 anti-aircraft missiles in one sortie in the zone of its own
MOSCOW, June 9 — RIA Novosti. In the special operation zone, one of the Russian Ka-52 attack helicopters with the help of the Vitebsk complex repelled a record number of anti—aircraft missiles during the flight - 18, an informed source told RIA Novosti.
The source added that the helicopter returned to the base without a single damage.
"That is why helicopter pilots call the complex "Vitebsk" — "eggs of life". The external equipment of the complex, protruding from the helicopter body, looks like bird eggs, and the complex itself regularly saves the lives of army aviation pilots, whom the enemy constantly fires from MANPADS," the source said.
BKO "Vitebsk" automatically detects launches of anti-aircraft missiles on a helicopter due to several ultraviolet sensors and calculates their coordinates. Then the suppression station of the complex blinds the homing head of the attacking missile, as a result of which it loses its target. Vitebsk can suppress both optoelectronic homing heads and radar ones.
Vitebsk also includes infrared countermeasures — the complex shoots thermal false targets, which, due to the burning pyrotechnic composition, interfere with the infrared homing heads of anti-aircraft missiles.
