Ejection seat - Wikipedia
To my knowledge it is only fitted to the Ka52.
Supposedly the Mi28 has seats which go sideways, but there is great suspicion on that due to forces on the neck. (Plus a higher minimum altitude)
Thanks stuff like this tickles the Futureweapons/Ace Combat portion of my brain.
Stop for a moment and appreciate how Kerbal this engineering solution is:
It's been tried. One early American idea was a downward firing one... Others fire the pilots out sideways. The Russian alligator Ka 52 IIRC blows the rotors first and the fires the crew up and out.
You can see the white line charges to blow the canopy in this pic. It's a pretty cool helicopter to be fair.
@Overheal & @Curious_Case
Just waiting now for the breaking news via twitter or the Athlone Chronicle about Putin being under house arrest...
Ah, the Kerbal space programme.
"Failure is always an option."
A sideways ejection seat with a fast-opening parachute should be feasible? Seat flies out horizontal, parachute flies back towards the helicopter at the same speed and opens. Pilot only needs a few meters to swing down vertical and land on the daisies.
You might could engineer something like that but IDK. Base jumping chutes are designed to deploy low but that's someone in a glide suit, very light and draggy, not a flight suit strapped to an ejector seat, which is many times more heavy. I think the system above has the right idea by pulling the ejectee up to a safe minimum deployment height.
btw, some reports saying it was a Ukrainian helicopter, others saying it was Russian. Such is the Twittershpere...
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Explosions reported in Belgorod
Chickens......roosting
It kinda looks like a situation where the cure would be worse than the illness. I knew a fighter pilot who had to eject from a high altitude when his plane developed a fault. He survived it ok, but he could never fly again such was the impact it had on him health-wise.
Occupation authorities announced evacuation in range of 15kms to Dnipro river
getting ready to blow the dam!
Putin claims mobilisation in Russia has been concluded
This is a first for me, video of Ukrainian Special Forces setting charges on a KA-52 helicopter, after supposedly sneaking into where they are being operated from.
✊ You must have heard that a powerful cotton explosion took place on the night of October 31 at the "Veretye" air base of the Russian Armed Forces (Pskov Region).
🤟 Two Russian attack helicopters Ka-52 "alligator" were completely destroyed.
🤟 Two more - significantly damaged.
So here is a video of placing explosives under one of these "reptilians"...
"Orestocracy"
It's a trick to get men to relax their guard so they can be more easily press ganged.
Coming back to a post yesterday, seems the weapons being smuggled into Finland story was made up by a journalist.
Oh no. What about the faux concern from some posters?
Trying to get the Tajiks and ethnics to come out of hiding in Moscow.
Looks what I found earlier
zero-zero ejector seats can deploy that low
The Ka-52 has them, so selling the Russians ejectors seats for helicopters wouldnt quite be the giggle that people think it would
Tanks we could sell them ejector seats for tanks,they have already mastered the ejector turret
I'm reading that Finland has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in all of Europe. The idea that they would need to smuggle in small arms from faraway Ukraine should have made people suspicious of the veracity.
That's assuming Putin doesn't die from cancer first.
Interesting. I don't think the story is going to be retracted, despite what the Ukrainians claim - that's just silly. It also doesn't sound realistic that every weapon delivered to Ukraine will end up in the right hands, but that's a problem we can worry about after the war.
The Russians are now recruiting "battle ready" Afghan soldiers. The same soldiers that just ran away from some yokels in pickup trucks.
Going to be a long cold hard winter in Kyiv. Hopefully this horrid conflict can be resolved in the short term but i have grave doubts Russia can be reasoned with.
Imagine trying to "reason with" a mafia state that deliberately destroys the water supply of the innocent people they claim they're trying to save from imaginary Nazis.
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