{"id":191391,"date":"2009-08-22T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/22\/alligator-helo-to-start-radar-trials\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T05:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T10:59:00","slug":"alligator-helo-to-start-radar-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/22\/alligator-helo-to-start-radar-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Alligator Helo to Start Radar Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img27.imageshack.us\/img27\/6683\/aw08172009724l3292119.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/>The Russians are starting trials with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;channel=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-08-17&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/08\/17\/AW_08_17_2009_p26-161579.xml&amp;headline=Alligator+Helo+to+Start+Radar+Trials\">radar roughly equivalent to the Longbow for the Kamov Ka-52 helicopter<\/a>, with a roughly 30km range. (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>The cost for the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> seat and radar that were added in the upgrade from the Ka-50 is that a lot of the armor has been removed to keep weight below 10 metric tonnes.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly I&#8217;m posting this for the picture, because I&#8217;ve always found the coaxial helicopters to look &#8220;cool&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russians are starting trials with a radar roughly equivalent to the Longbow for the Kamov Ka-52 helicopter, with a roughly 30km range. (paid subscription required) The cost for the 2nd seat and radar that were added in the upgrade from the Ka-50 is that a lot of the armor has been removed to keep &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1226,1006,1033],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-helicopters","category-military","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}