Increasingly Terrifying, Russia Equips Mi-28NM Helicopters With Advanced Missiles And Kamikaze Drones

JAKARTA - Mil Mi-28NM helicopter is one of the attack helicopters feared by Western countries. This version has been developed since 2009, with a new design on the nose, propeller, firing control system, and electronic radio data processing.

By the target to update the helicopter's weapons system, after the first test flight in 2016 and the downs and downs completed last October 2020. The Mi-28NM is now equipped with the latest generation of missiles.

Chief Combat Helicopter Program Designer at Mil and Kamov National Helicopter Center (part of the Russian Helicopter Group, Rostec) Vitaly Shcherbina said the latest Mil Mi-28NM attack helicopters have received next-generation missile and rocket weaponry.

"In cooperation, we focus on expanding the range of weapons launched from the air from the helicopter's airborne weaponry, as a base area to upgrade the Mi-28N base helicopter", he explained, visiting TASS, Friday, May 21.

"The Mi-28N and 28 NM air arsenals are now equipped with day and night usable missiles, multi-role ammunition that allows attack without the need to enter enemy air defense territory. There are also new generation rockets that are upgraded incapacity, as well as bombs of various calibers", he said.

Furthermore, Shcherbina explained, this helicopter also has an efficient combat operating system as a reconnaissance and attack system.

As with the efficient combat operating system, the Mi-28NM weapons system is also efficient, thanks to the use of multipurpose missiles, using missiles as part of the information support system of reconnaissance drones and automated command posts created by Mil and Kamov National.

"The comprehensive use of these missiles, together with resources about the enemy and combat environment in a designated area, will allow the crew to address the issue of optimizing flight characteristics to combat work areas in real-time, namely selecting parameters for launching attacks on targets (the path, speed and altitude of helicopter flights and missile firing rates) in automatic mode", he said.

enough? Of course not. The helicopter is also capable of launching kamikaze drones. According to Shcherbina, the inclusion of kamikaze drones in the air arsenal of warships is one area of interaction between Mi-28NM and UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles).

According to him, under this scheme mi-28NM attack helicopters can launch one or more kamikaze drones from their board when entering a designated area.

"After detecting enemy targets, the helicopter crew issued an acquisition of the target and exercised control over their destruction. Mi-28NM can also interact with other types of drones", he explained.

"Automated interactions between Mi-28NM helicopters and various reconnaissance drones, helping to monitor designated areas without entering the enemy's effective air defenses, provide accurate target acquisition, and exercise control for the work of next-generation light multi-purpose missile combat in real-time. It also sends back the phone and telecode messages between helicopters, aircraft, aircraft platforms, and ground command posts interacting with each other in the area specified in combat operations", Shcherbina concluded.