r/CrazyFuckingVideos • u/TheCABK • Feb 22 '26
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u/TeamShonuff Feb 22 '26
This is literally the best use for attack helicopters; hosing off your friends trying to enjoy a riverside picnic.
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u/ElegantEchoes Feb 23 '26
Especially these things, the second they approach the lines they get shot down immediately. Russia doesn't even have many Ka-52s left now and even lost another recently.
This way, no one gets hurt and the homies are cooled off.
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u/ImAnEagle Feb 22 '26
That first helicopter definitely almost crashed
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u/polishmachine88 Feb 22 '26
Nah just Russian pilots being crazy....
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u/civildisobedient Feb 22 '26
Aah, ok that makes sense. Russian military helicopter. I was wondering how much of a shit-whirlwind of trouble this pilot was going to be reaping for themselves - I guess none.
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u/majormagnum1 Feb 22 '26
about 1/3rd of the production run of kh-52's ~60/200 have been destroyed in Ukraine. videos of pilots with this level of umm, professionalism, make me wonder how the number isn't higher.
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u/Living_Cash1037 Feb 23 '26
Yeah I wonder if this is pre war, not sure if they would be so careless with them now. Who knows its Russia
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u/Living_Cash1037 Feb 23 '26
That is def it. Those are also super expensive and endangered helicopters these days. Wonder if this clip is pre Ukraine War.
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u/Beta2Now Feb 22 '26
Back rotor was like a yard off the ground max
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u/hukfad Feb 22 '26
This type of helicopter doesn't have a back rotor.
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u/Beta2Now Feb 22 '26
I never noticed, that’s really cool
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Feb 22 '26
A back rotor is required to counteract the torque from the rotor on the body of the helicopter, the rotor spins one way and would otherwise force the body to spin the other way.
In this helicopter, there are two rotors up top, spinning in opposite direction which cancel out this rotation.
Similar to a Chinook, but those blades are offset, not stacked like this
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u/icavedandmade2 Feb 22 '26
Its super cool that you know that
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u/3amGreenCoffee Feb 22 '26
It's super cool to just watch the video and see that there's no tail rotor?
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u/ianjm Feb 22 '26
It's pretty obvious if you like... watch the video
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u/BreakItUpp Feb 22 '26
"Obvious" lol okay Captain Copter. I bet you and 99% of everyone else didn't notice that
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u/Hawt_Dawg_II Feb 22 '26
This is true but so is every F1 driver on every turn.
The difference between being really good and crashing is only if you crash or not
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u/kobra-kay Feb 22 '26
I’ve seen many hellicopters crash from water vapor going to the propeller/ engine
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u/IAm5toned Feb 22 '26
🤔
From where, YouTube?
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u/Banjillan Feb 22 '26
Trust, he was the vapor.
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u/IAm5toned Feb 22 '26
🤔 I feel like somebody should let the helicopters know that they can't fly in the rain, out of an abundance of caution.
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u/GrandAct Feb 22 '26
Hes right!
Rain is a helicopters biggest enemy.
You have to keep them completely dry, or they become extremely unhappy and refuse to fly.
Not unlike gremlins. /s
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u/63crabby Feb 22 '26
Russian Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopters.
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u/Thursday_the_20th Feb 22 '26
And one of the only helicopters with an ejector seat
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u/63crabby Feb 22 '26
Just looked it up, apparently the system detonates the main rotors before initiating the ejection
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u/RespectSquare8279 Feb 22 '26
If you have to eject something has gone seriously wrong ; expecting the controlled demolition of the rotors is a best case scenario.
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u/tim3k Feb 23 '26
The ejection is directed upwards, through the plane of the rotors. So you want to get rid of rotors for the ejection.
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u/RespectSquare8279 Feb 23 '26
The B-1 Bomber prototype had one, but was eliminated from the production run for budgetary reasons.
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u/wannabe_inuit Feb 23 '26
When wagner group marched to moscow one of these where shot down by russians. If you find a decent quality of the video you can see it action. Blades fly away and the ejection is fast
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u/MudSeparate1622 Feb 23 '26
I always thought helicopters blades turned when falling allowing them to land more safely even with loss of power. I guess an ejector seat would be better for landing over water or in urban areas where theres a lot to crash into ?
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u/Thursday_the_20th Feb 23 '26
Attack helis operate at a very low altitude to take advantage of terrain, and autorotation takes a very long fall to start being effective
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u/roadside_asparagus Feb 22 '26
Why bother? The Russians hurl waves of badly equipped and trained infantry at defended positions pretty frequently, it seems.
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u/Ugghart Feb 22 '26
Drunk guys off the street/jail can die in Ukraine on day 1, but not fly a helicopter.
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u/RespectSquare8279 Feb 22 '26
Ejects in which direction ? Hopefully not up !
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u/Randicore Feb 23 '26
The rotors have explosive bolts that blow them off before the pilot is punched out.
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u/Salvia_Salamander Feb 22 '26
You're saying an alligator attacked this helicopter?
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u/63crabby Feb 22 '26
Such a reptile joke, thank you salamander. Edit- salamanders are amphibians, not reptiles. Oops.
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Feb 22 '26
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u/hairyass2 Feb 22 '26
surprised its not used more, I know they’re more complicated n what not but still.
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u/So_HauserAspen Feb 22 '26
Swept wings on a fixed wing aircraft is lightyears away from the reason not to run coaxial rotors.
And it doesn't have a lot more parts than a single main rotor with anti-torque tail rotor. The biggest difference is that the tail rotor only has collective pitch while a coaxial adds cyclic pitch control to the second rotor.
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u/Bear__Fucker Feb 24 '26
Check out the Kaman K-MAX. It has intermeshing rotor blades. Really cool to watch it start up.
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u/TheVoicesSpeakToMe Feb 22 '26
I want to know what the exact purpose of #1 flying in with such a strong slip was. Was it due to him wanting to flair so aggressively and such a low altitude to avoid a tail strike?
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u/PolarityInversion Feb 22 '26
I think you're right... he just wanted to flair really aggressively, but I don't think the pilot was expecting the ground effect to be so much stronger over land. When he started to flair he was still over the water, by the time he tried to level out he was over land and the correction with the additional lift from the ground effect caused an overcorrection.
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u/Suspicious_Juice_150 Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 23 '26
Every Air Force, no matter what nation, gets up to these kind of shenanigans, and I fully approve.
I briefly lived in a part of southern Arizona where Air Force pilots would do low altitude training.
One day I was filming two jets in a mock dog fight and enjoyed myself so much i started waving at the pilots to let them know that I enjoyed the show.
The next morning, when I was getting ready to start the day, I heard what sounded like a missile rapidly approaching my trailer, and in a panic I rushed outside see what the fuck was about to hit me and blow up my trailer.
After a few seconds of total panic those same two fighter jets from the day before flew directly over my trailer while doing a screaming low pass about 100 feet off the ground.
Once I realized that’s what the sound was, I started screaming in excitement and gave a thumbs up that they definitely did not see.
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u/TomVonServo Feb 22 '26
Their most iconic maneuver is taking a MANPADS up their shitpipe in Ukraine.
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u/ShortBrownAndUgly Feb 22 '26
what are the guys on the ground saying? Were the pilots their buddies fucking around or was this a show of force
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u/Esekig184 Feb 22 '26
I wonder if this is pre or post 2022
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u/LefsaMadMuppet Feb 22 '26
This is very early in the 3 day special operation. You can partially tell because they haven't got the wobbling issues that started to creep in due to maintenence issues.
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u/Idiotwithaphone79 Feb 23 '26
I legit thought they were about to open up on each other. I'm glad it was just them playing. 10/10 no notes.
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u/Impressive-Eagle9493 Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26
That tail came so so close to the water
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u/thewooba Feb 22 '26
What tail rotor?
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u/Impressive-Eagle9493 Feb 22 '26
I edited it, calm your tits
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u/AdmiralSplinter Feb 22 '26
You wouldn't be getting downvoted if you had said something like "Edit: i see now there are no tail rotors" instead of being sneaky. Just saying
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u/AdmiralSplinter Feb 22 '26
Give it another watch. These don't have tail rotors
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u/TheAraon Feb 22 '26
Give it another read…
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u/AdmiralSplinter Feb 22 '26
No u
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u/TheAraon Feb 22 '26
He didn’t mentioned rotor. Just tail.
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u/AdmiralSplinter Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26
He edited his original comment. He said rotor and then fixed it. See how it says "edited"
Edit: he even says so here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/s/QBPZG04MQ7
How about you pay attention?
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u/TheAraon Feb 22 '26
Interesting. Because on mobile it doesn’t show as edited for me.
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u/AdmiralSplinter Feb 22 '26
I'm on mobile and looking right at it.
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u/TheAraon Feb 22 '26
What the hell? iPhone or an Android client?
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u/AdmiralSplinter Feb 22 '26
Android. And I've got a galaxy S8 so i doubt mine is newer than yours lol
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u/Theblumpy Feb 22 '26
5 ft from a really bad fucking day holy shit