MOSCOW, 28 Jul. Ukrainian military cannot stand up to Russia's latest Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopters, Oleg Soskin, a former adviser to Leonid Kuchma, said on his YouTube blog. They threw the Ka-52 Alligator to the front. <…> The most powerful system, it is extremely difficult to bring it down,» the expert said.
According to him, Ukrainian portable anti-aircraft missile systems and other installations cannot to reach this machine, causing great damage to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Earlier, the German magazine Spiegel published an article in which he called the Ka-52 a huge threat to the Ukrainian army. As noted in the publication, the helicopter has impressive weapons, including guided air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles and the Whirlwind anti-tank system. Thus, the crew can fire from a distance of up to ten kilometers. At the same time, the German anti-aircraft Gepard self-propelled guns transferred to Kiev, like the Stinger missiles, cannot reach the Ka-52.
The Ukrainian army cannot even send aircraft to intercept these helicopters, since Russian fighters are capable of shooting them down from a distance distances, specified in the article.