{"id":46842,"date":"2022-03-18T22:55:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T21:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=46842"},"modified":"2024-03-18T00:14:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T23:14:36","slug":"the-curious-tactic-of-russian-attack-helicopters-against-ukrainian-defenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/18\/the-curious-tactic-of-russian-attack-helicopters-against-ukrainian-defenses\/","title":{"rendered":"The curious tactic of Russian attack helicopters against Ukrainian defenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russians are meeting in Ukraine with a tenacious resistance both on the ground and in the air, and that is generating somewhat curious situations.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/17\/the-destruction-of-a-russian-army-tank-by-ukrainian-forces-from-a-drone-view\/\">The destruction of a Russian Army tank by Ukrainian forces from a drone view<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/14\/the-damage-caused-by-a-ukrainian-manpads-on-a-russian-su-25-attack-plane\/\">The damage caused by a Ukrainian MANPADS on a Russian Su-25 attack plane<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the tweet <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/200_zoka\/status\/1504206880872275980\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@200_zoka<\/a> spread this video in which <strong>two Russian attack helicopters, a Kamov KA-52 Alligator and a Mil Mi-28 Havoc, are seen launching unguided rockets into the sky<\/strong>, with an inclination of about 20\u00ba, in an attempt to bypass Ukrainian anti-aircraft defenses:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"rumble\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/vv6m5h\/?pub=ck0k2\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bGHD4ap2z50\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WarLeaks<\/a> they have pointed out that there is a real experimental tactic and a theory behind it: <strong>the so-called hit-and-climb attack<\/strong>, also called a rise attack, a tactic that was already introduced by the Soviets during the Cold War. <strong>The theory is to use the helicopters in the same way as ground-based multiple rocket launchers (MLRS)<\/strong>, which launch unguided weapons in a parabolic trajectory, allowing them to fire behind mountains and behind enemy defenses.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that <strong>the rockets launched from the helicopters are not as effective with this launch system, and also the shot loses precision<\/strong>, so it is not suitable to be used in areas where there are friendly units. But the Russian attack helicopters <strong>have no choice if they want to avoid being shot down by Ukrainian anti-aircraft defenses.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russians are meeting in Ukraine with a tenacious resistance both on the ground and in the air, and that is generating somewhat curious situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11546],"tags":[16143,16289,10731,16153,15307],"class_list":["post-46842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-military-aviation","tag-kamov-ka-52-alligator","tag-mil-mi-28-havoc","tag-russia","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-ukraine"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 03:28:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}