You send any attack chopper into contested airspace you're gonna get the same results.
It's not the KA-52's problem. It's command just sending the equipment and pilots to their doom
It is like buying a Ferrari while you don't know how to drive, handle gearstick like a sledge hammer, bumps into things all the time, never change tires, service it or even check the oil... and complaining that Ferrari is a shit car. Ka-52 certainly isn't a Ferrari but with all instruments and maintained it is a powerful weapon. Russian military industry, especially in field of aerospace engineering, has been able to put out designs and machines that are clearly work of brilliance. Problem is that industry can't keep up with ever increasing army needs for modernization, poor education and training in the army and systemic corruption of all levels of army and state apparatus. But the state was always able to display fully functional modern machines in Red Square, maintaining perception of everything going smoothly, until top of the state started being convinced by their own propaganda.
Kamov Ka 52 is crap... Even Russia itself has better gunship in form of Mi28 Night Thunder... Ka52 isn't even an absolute gunship and the moment you fill it up with weapons, it's performance goes down...
Ukrainians are now claiming that they can shoot it down with 7.67mm machine gun fire... That's way less than claimed armour protection of 12.7mm fire...
No wonder India didn't even consider it when Russians offered it... India compared Night Thunder and Apaches and finally went with Apaches..
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