Deploying a Russian chopper team used to strike the Ukrainian army, composed of the Ka-52 Alligator Kamov gunship and the Mi-8 MTPR-1 helicopter in the offensive against Kyiv. A pure gunship and one with the Richag-AV electronic warfare (EW) system are combined to murk up AFU ground defense areas in the conflict areas.
Russian Chopper Team Works Together
In October 2021, the Russian army disclosed these assets have helped lessen losses of the Kamov helicopter. April last year, the duo was seen in leaked unofficial photos, The EurAsian Times reported.
If the MTPR-1 is for the conflict in Ukraine and has many electronic warfare systems, it is not clear, cites Air Recognition.
Even if about 27 got shot down with Man-Portable Air Defense (MANPAD) at low altitudes, it is still a good platform. More EW choppers with fewer of the Ukraine S-300 and BUK SAMs left the Ukraine defense with few western defense batteries. Already NATO is sending less of them as Russia destroys defenses.
One video show ground personnel putting rockets in the pods and then the Alligator and the MTPR-1 ready for takeoff. The markings on the unit are blurred and not the base located, they liftoff with the EW support, states Military Today.
Ukrainian Army Attacked
Launching flares to confuse heat seekers and points up, then shooting rockets at an arc, then making a hard. It is a tactic to fire at farther distances. A statement with the video says the pilots of Army Aviation fired rockets at the hardware and structures of the AFU. Other shots from the nose FLIR and tail depicted a volley of a rocket shooting simultaneously and landing.
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The quadrotor Mi-8 has the Richag-AV EW system was made and built by the KOMZ, which is a part of the Radio-Electronic Technologies Concern, which can be equipped on multiple military platforms in the Russian forces, per Pakistan Defence, for the Mi-8 retrofitted to equip it and fewer modifications to the airframe of the aircraft's structure.
This system can blind sensors from about 100 kilometers with several arrays with Digital Radio Frequency Memory (DRFM) to jam radio-based weapon systems. The weapon has a database to identify what kind of system it needs to jam effectively.
The system possesses an inbuilt database against it, which scans a detected frequency from a radar, identifies it, and then employs an appropriate jamming technique and strategy.
Mi-8 has a cargo/passenger compartment divided into two sections. The smaller part is in the system operator's station in the back, where the EW hardware is placed. It jams in several modes, with scanning the electromagnetic spectrum and jamming done automatically or manually. KOMZ installed it in 20 Mi-8s delivered to the Russian army in 2017.
The footage shows the helicopter flying low so that MANPAD missiles like the US and Soviet systems can hit. It could confuse anti-air missiles with radio seekers and radar protecting an aircraft for that purpose. Russian chopper team deployed to strike down any Ukrainian army defense from an aerial onslaught.
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