The V-100 was a projected side-by-side twin-rotor
compound helicopter
A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attribut ...
combat aircraft from
Kamov
JSC Kamov () is a rotorcraft Aerospace manufacturer, manufacturing company based in Lyubertsy, Russia.
The Kamov Design Bureau (OKB, design office prefix Ka) has more recently specialised in compact helicopters with coaxial rotors, suitable for ...
. It had a
pusher propeller
In aeronautical and naval engineering, pusher configuration is the term used to describe a drivetrain of air- or watercraft with propulsion device(s) after the engine(s). This is in contrast to the more conventional tractor configuration, whic ...
located behind the rear tailplane, rotors mounted on the tips of its wings and two turbines mounted above the central fuselage, to have the aircraft exceed a projected speed of 400 km/h.
Kamov N.I.
accessed 11.03.2021 Integral gun armament was planned to consist of two mobile AO-9 single barrel derivatives of the GSh-23 (one on each side) or a single fixed AO-10 (early version of the GSh-30-1). Other weapons would have included the Kh-25 missile and other stores on two high capacity fuselages and a total of six underwing hardpoints with a combined warload of up to 3000 kg. This project was abandoned and only one model of the aircraft exists.
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1980s Soviet attack aircraft
Kamov aircraft
Kamov V-100
Abandoned military aircraft projects of the Soviet Union
Compound helicopters
Transverse rotor helicopters
Twin-engined single-prop pusher aircraft
Twin-turbine helicopters
Parasol-wing aircraft