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Kamov Ka-118

Type: Light multi-purpose turbine powered helicopter.

Program: Decision to build Ka-118, utilizing jet thruster control system developed on Ka-26SS test bed, announced at Helicopter Association International convention Dallas, Texas on February 4, 1990.

Design features:
Single main rotor, with swept blade tips, breaks with Kamov traditional use of coaxial contra-rotating rotors; jet thruster control system (similar to McDonnell Douglas NOTAR) eliminates need for tail rotor; highly streamlined, extensively glazed cabin; V tail with bridging tailplane; skid landing gear.

Structure:
Four-blade rotor of composites construction.

Power plant:
Not decided early 1992; alternatives include one 530 kW (710 shp) Omsk TV-O-100 turboshaft, or one or two engines of Allison, Pratt & Whitney Canada, Rolls-Royce, or Turbomeca design; standard fuel capacity 700 liters (185 US gallons; 154 Imp gallons).

Accommodation: Pilot and four passengers in cabin.

Equipment: As necessary for day/night normal/adverse weather operation, on such duties as passenger transport, air ambulance, freight carrying, search and rescue, patrol of forests, highways, electric power lines, gas and oil pipelines.

Data for Ka-118 with TV-O-100 engine follows

Dimensions external
Rotor diameter: 11.00 m (36 ft 1 in)
Fuselage length: 10.00 m (32 ft 9.75 in)
Height overall: 2.60 m (8 ft 6.5 in)
Width over skids: 2.60 m (8 ft 6.5 in)

Areas
Rotor disc: 95.03 sq m (1,023 sq ft)

Weights and loadings
Max payload internal: 800 kg (1,765 lb)
Max payload external: 1,000 kg (2,205 lb)
Normal T-O weight: 1,950 kg (4,300 lb)
Max T-O weight with internal load: 2,150 kg (4,740 lb)
Max T-O weight with slung load: 2,250 kg (4,960 lb)
Max disc loading: 23.68 kg/sq m (4.85 lb/sq ft)

Performance (estimated)
Max level speed: 162 knots (300 km/h; 186 mph)
Max cruising speed: 145 knots (270 lm/h; 168 mph)
Max rate of climb at S/L: 660 m (2,165 ft)/min
Service ceiling: 6,150 m 20,175 ft)
Hovering ceiling IGE: 3,000 m (9,850 ft)
Range max standard fuel: 512 nm (950 km; 590 miles)
Range with auxiliary tanks: 810 nm (1,500 km; 932 miles)

Text source: Lambert, Mark ed. Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1992-1993 Jane's Information Group Ltd. 1992 pp. 213-214.

Provisional three-view drawing of Kamov Ka-118 five-seat helicopter.
Source: http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/ka-118.php

Model of Kamov Ka-118 helicopter.
Source: http://www.military.cz/russia/air/helicopters/Ka-118/ka118.htm
 

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So, the Russians did build a Little Bird-type helicopter. Or at least they proposed one.
 
Jschmus said:
So, the Russians did build a Little Bird-type helicopter. Or at least they proposed one.

But it looks like the lack of appropriate domestic engines was still an issue (if I'm reading it correctly those are a pair of Pratt & Whitney Canada engines)?
 
Source:
https://soldat.pro/en/2018/07/04/ka-118/
 

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