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hello everyone welcome back to Masa military during the Russo Ukrainian War Russia has sent a large number of armed helicopters to fight on the front line but suffered heavy losses Russia is estimated to have lost more than 100 armed helicopters in the early and middle stages of the war Russian armed helicopters appeared a lot however with the increase in losses and the frequent use of drones and fixed wing fighter jets armed helicopters began to gradually Retreat to the second line and its appearance on the front line has repeatedly gotten lower this has led the countries who are observing the war to consider reducing the number of Attack Helicopters although the future of Attack Helicopters is worrying fast transport helicopters are still indispensable and have become more important one year after selecting the V28 Valor tilt rotor aircraft to replace the Blackhawk helicopters the US Army officially launched a replacement operation the first batch of cuts was approximately 160 uh60 Blackhawk helicopters freeing up the budget for the new generation of Valor to take over before the start of the Russia Ukraine war the Russian Air Force had about 400 armed helicopters including 100 C 52s and Mi 28s each and the remaining 200 or so were from the Mi 2435 series judging from the current data the Russian army has lost more than a quarter of its armed helicopters this loss rate should have affected the operation of the attack helicopter Fleet since the Russian army does not have Absolute Air Supremacy on the battlefield Russian fighter bombers and attack helicopters have to fly at low altitudes in order to avoid radar detection and perform bombing and attack missions this makes them vulnerable to Ukrainian ground-based individual air defense missiles and anti-aircraft artillery fire this is also one of the reasons for the armed helicopters record of receiving high combat damage the Ukrainian Army not only has Soviet era anti-aircraft guns and short range air defense systems but also acquired German Gard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns as well as portable anti-aircraft missiles provided by multiple countries numbering tens of thousands enough to destroy the Russian helicopter Fleet faced with increasingly diverse air defense weapons the survivability of armed helicopters is indeed worrying the first country to decide to reduce the the number of armed helicopters was Japan Japan's 5-year National Defense construction plan announced in January 2023 decided to retire all armed helicopters and reconnaissance helicopters and replace these models with drones the Japan ground self-defense Force currently has approximately 50 Bell ah1s huy cobras 12 Boeing ah 64d Apachi attack helicopters and 37 Kawasaki o1 reconnaissance helicopters these these armed helicopters will be replaced by armed drones but Japan has not yet mentioned a timetable for their retirement and the transport helicopters of the Japan ground self-defense force will not be affected the second country that decided to phase out armed helicopters was Germany Germany decided to purchase a batch of light multi-purpose armed helicopters for the transition and cut down the entire tiger attack helicopter Fleet before considering unmanned helicopters the German government signed a contract with Airbus helicopters in December 2023 to purchase 62 h145m light attack helicopters at a price of 2.3 billion US with a delivery starting in 2024 before the new helicopter contract was signed Germany announced in March that all 51 tiger armed helicopters would be retired one after another starting in 2031 in December 2022 the US Army selected Bell textron's V28 Valor tilt rotor aircraft as the Next Generation general purpose main helicopter and is expected to enter service in early 2030 the V 280 is used to replace the well-known uh60 Blackhawk family and some ah64 Apache Attack Helicopters becoming the main rotary Wing aircraft of the US Army Valor not only has the flexibility of a helicopter but also has the higher speed and range of a fixed Wing aircraft when the rotor spins like a helicopter it can take off vertically or short distances like a helicopter once up to the air it can adjust its rotors to move forward like a fixed wi aircraft to compare the Blackhawk helicopter has a maximum flight speed of 183 mph and a maximum range of 1,380 Mi The Valor has a top speed of 320 mph and a range of 2,400 Mi the maximum takeoff weight of the Blackhawk is 22,000 lb while the The Valor reaches 3,865 lb therefore the internal space is larger than that of the Blackhawk it can carry four crew members including the pilot and co-pilot mechanic and Gunner In addition it can carry 14 crew members the Blackhawk has a crew of four plus 11 crew members The Valor can hoist 11,955 lb of payload while the Blackhawk can hoist 9,40 lb high speed and long range are Necessities deeply felt by the Pentagon in actual combat during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan the US military was deeply impressed by the speed and range of the Osprey tilt rotor aircraft due to the high-speed characteristics of the Osprey it can complete two missions in the time it takes the ch-53e to perform a single Mission however the safety record of the first generation tilt rotor aircraft v22 Offspring was criticized so some people are not optimistic about the future of the Valor aircraft however the design of the Valor aircraft did learn from the lessons of the Osprey and made great improvements to achieve better safety the valor's rotor design differs from that of the Osprey its rotor is not linked with the engine but the power is transmitted to the rotor by a Cardon shaft which makes the center of gravity of the whole machine change less further reduces the burden on the steering mechanism and also avoids the disadvantage of the engine Hot Gas being discharged downward The Valor prototype uses two General Electric t64 turboshaft engines and the production version will use rolls-royce's AE 117f engine which is a development model of the engine used by the mv-22 Osprey in addition according to experience when the Osprey repels or lifts people in the hovering State the hot air from the engine is discharged downward making soldiers very uncomfortable meanwhile the valor's engine does not move and the hot air is discharged to the rear so there is no such problem moreover The Valor canel the back opening springboard tailgate design of the Osprey and replaced it with a side opening door design like the Blackhawk the side doors open under the wings the wings can block part of the downward air flow which is more beneficial for sling operations the 6ot wide side door also facilitates personnel's faster entry and exits as well as tasks such as loading stretchers and Rapid descents weapons such as door machine guns Rockets Etc can also be installed on the door like the Blackhawk helicopter the US Army will retire older helicopters from active duty units first moreover these retired Blackhawk helicopters will also be resold to foreign countries with the estimated selling price of a single aircraft being around $2 million okay that's all for today don't forget to like subscribe and support M military see you next time