On September 14th 1902, Nikolai Ilyich Kamov, a famous Soviet aircraft designer, was born. In 1929, together with Nikolai Skrzhinsky, he created the first Soviet autogyro, the KASKR-1 and in 1940, he headed his own helicopter design bureau, where the famous series of Ka helicopters was produced. Kamov and Skrzhinsky invented a Russian word to replace the word “helicopter”: “vertolyot”, an amalgamation of verbs “to spin” and “to fly”.
The Ka-50 has a 30% discount!
In honor of Nikolai Kamov’s birthday, the Soviet Ka-50 attack helicopter can be purchased with a 30% discount in the Gaijin Store!
When: From today until September 16th (12:00 GMT).
Work on the Ka-50 began back in 1976, with it entering service only in 1995. In 1993, the Ka-50 featured in the Russian “Black Shark” movie, hence its nickname. This is one of the most modern helicopters in War Thunder. It’s fast, maneuverable, armed with the 9K121 “Vikhr” ATGM which is also effective against air targets thanks to the radio fuze, as well as the “Igla-V” MANPADS.
Right now no modules worse than having modules. That kind of damage (which is literally a couple of bullets) already disables all helicopter functions except flight.
Ka-50 on simulator doesn’t worth that much. Specially in Ground Battles as people will straight up shoot you down at the moment you blip in their radar.
20x zoom multiplier kills this helicopter, maybe that’s why it stays at 11.0, as the only difference between it and later helicopters is the lack of thermal and bad optic zoom multiplier.
hmm, we never had this sale in any previous year, despite having Ka-50 in game since 2019 … so it really looks like Gaijin just wants to squeeze in one last sale before internal modules are implemented for Ka-50
or maybe this sale is an excuse for not having Ka-50 on discount during WT anniversary or Christmas sales because “it was on discount recently”, similar to last year sales shenanigans …
You can buy it throw the Online Store button in Warthunder or you can login in the warthunder store with steam and buy it from there. If you but it on your browser you need or to restart the game or open the store in warthunder and let it load, then if you close the steam overlay your profile will update and you will get the pack
Why only for Russia? Why dont we get events for other nations of this type. For example.
Sir Sydney Camm. Born 5th of August 1893, or Ralph Hooper 30th of January 1926 or Stanley Hooker 30th of September 1907 who were the 3 lead people for the development of the Harrier. This event could come with the AV-8A and Harrier Gr1 sales.
But nope. Only celebrating soviet stuff once again.
