[Chinstrap61a]

Russian helicopters are good but the future of all helicopters for combat is getting dimmer. They are too slow, fly too low, and have easily detectable signatures, which makes them easily shot down in the modern battlefield.

The helicopter has already become this era's "biplane" and will only survive in the safer rear areas from now on.

[ryan71]

If I had a choice between wrestling a 12’ croc or flying in a Russian helo, I'd take the croc.

[Bobalu]

Many Russian helicopters look ugly and strange to me...

[Bulldawg Fan]

I’ll stick with the Apachee and American built helicopters.

[flowerplough]

Whoa! An onboard digital computer in those Kamovs! And helmet-mounted target designators with thermal imagery technology! Jeez louise! When the shooting starts, every hostile nearby, in the sky or on the ground, is doomed.

[cynwoody]

I read somewhere that when Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky needed to introduce himself at New York cocktail parties, he would twirl a finger above his head to preempt the question whether he was the Sikorsky.