Citat: I-25IV Shkval-V The Shkval-V system designed for the Ka-50 includes a high-resolution TV camera, with a 27° by 36° field of view wide-angle mode for search and a 0.7° , 23x magnification narrow-angle mode for targeting, and a laser target designator (Pritchal) boresighted to the camera.
Shkval detects, tracks and identifies fixed and moving ground targets and slow airborne targets. It has manual, software corrected and automatic tracking. It can iteroperate with the navigation system, the radar and thermal imager pod (if fitted).
Citat:The Shkval system is steerable through 35° to either side of the aircraft, and from 15° above the centerline to 80° below. Its range against tank-sized targets was 8 km.
Prichal operates at 1.064 micron wavelength. It uses a 5Hz pulse repetition rate in rangefinding and 10-25Hz in illumination mode. It has greater range than the older Klen-PS and a narrower beam of 1.5 angular minutes. Rangefinding error was no more than ±5m, maximum range 10km, weight was 46kg and maximum power consumption 4.8kW.Shkval detection range was 20-24km for a large landmark like a bridge, 15km for a single building, 10km for a fighter and 6km for a helicopter.
У 2012. години направљено је 20 Ка-52. Мада би по ев.бројевима требало да их има 21. То су бројеви 01, 02, 21, 22, 23 и од 41 до 56. Можда су у овом другом низу нешто прескочили. Цена по хеликоптеру износи 26 милиона долара.
Sistem Merkur bio predvidjen za Ka-50 ali se odustalo ,ispitivan na jednom prototipu
Mercuriy
Citat:OKB: MNITI
Chief Designer: K K Chizhikov
Mercury entered development in 1982 as the first airborne night-vision device in the USSR.
Mercuriy has two lenses for wide and narrow FOV
Citat:Low-light-level TV camera developed for various platforms including the Ka-50
Range was 10km in daylight, 3km at night against a tank size target. A bridge could be detected at 6-8km, a barge at 10-12km at night. No stabilisation.
It could be used in conjunction with the Prichal laser system in active illumination mode, which increased detection range to 4-5km for a tank.
Sukhoi were reportedly not happy with performance.
The Mercuriy was also intended to equip the Ka-50, but Kamov also found its performance lacking. It was really useful only for night flying, not for fighting.
