Mi-37 Tungus FICTIONAL
The "Mi-37 Tungus" is the fictional creation of a modeler, and there is no indication that it is in any way related to a real helicopte. The model was made by April 1, so the description is richly flavored "branchy cranberry" - to include the fake cover of Vzlyot magazine, and a somewhat plausible "official" document. One gullible analyst concluded "The further fate of the project is not known."
The legend created for this model was that in parallel with the work on the Mi-28 helicopter, a separate unit of the Mil Milya Helicopter Plant developed a helicopter which was a further development of the Mi-24 without an airborne cargo cabin, in a purely shock version.
Without waiting for the mass arrival of the latest Mi-28N troops, to update the outdated and every year more and more unusable fleet of combat helicopters, it was decided to deeply modernize the 24-ki. The helicopter received the designation Mi-37. In addition to the official designation, it is customary to give new models an unofficial name. When a peculiar competition for such a name was announced inside the Design Bureau, the name “Tungus” proposed by one of the local comedians was approved by a majority of votes. Why Tungus? And to the “peak” of the American “Iroquois,” “Apache,” “Comanche.”
The first samples were equipped with spare parts from Mi-24, and at the final stage, the conversion of Mi-24 to MI-37 was carried out using parts and assemblies unified with Mi-28N, which significantly increases the combat capabilities and survivability of the new helicopter. The unification of the Mi-73 and Mi-28N allows to reduce the cost of production and modernization of combat helicopters. According to representatives of the Ministry of Defense, there are no revisions to plans for the purchase of aircraft in favor of the Mi-37, because Each of these machines performs its own tasks. At the same time, when equipping the troops, priority is given to new equipment - the Mi-28N helicopter, and the Mi-37 is positioned as a transition helicopter to facilitate the preparation of flight crews from the Mi-24 to the Mi-28N. In fact, the Mi-37 is a new machine in which the rich experience of long-term combat use,
The helicopter is designed according to a single-rotor scheme with a tail rotor, two gas turbine engines, a three-leg landing gear and an auxiliary wing. The Mi-37 fuselage is all-metal made of aluminum-lithium alloys with the wide use of composite materials and has significantly smaller (due to the abandonment of the airborne cargo compartment) dimensions than the Mi-24 helicopter. Nevertheless, the volume of the fuselage remaining after resizing, allowed to place additional fuel tanks, equipment and a small cargo compartment inside. Arms suspension wings were shifted forward. Placing the heaviest units and systems near the center of mass contributed to the increased maneuverability of the Mi-37.
On the first samples of the Mi-37, the same main and tail rotors were installed as in the Mi-24. On the new sides installed screws like the Mi-28. The five-blade rotor with new blades having profiles with increased curvature, creating a large lifting force. The blades have a fiberglass spar; along the nose of the blade there is an erosion-resistant titanium pad with an electric anti-icing system. The rotor titanium sleeve has elastomeric joints and hydraulic dampers. A four-bladed X-shaped tail rotor, consisting of two two-bladed propellers with elastomeric horizontal hinges, allows to reduce noise and increase efficiency.
In the bow there is a double crew cabin with separate cockpits of the navigator-operator and pilot. The crew rescue system at low altitudes includes energy-absorbing seats, equipped with a system for attracting the crew to the seats to create the necessary manufacturing position, reinforced energy-absorbing chassis are used. Behind the cockpit there is a cargo compartment, which, if necessary, can accommodate two people (for example, for evacuation).
On the right side of the cab, a round-the-clock surveillance and search system is installed. It provides round-the-clock detection, recognition, capture and auto tracking of ground targets, obstacles from the image on the screen of a video monitor, measuring the slant range to an object at any time of the year or day, in simple and limited weather conditions, in order to perform piloting, take-off and landing (including including untrained sites) and other special tasks (reconnaissance, search).
The use of the “Arbalet” sub-muzzle radar provides detection and measurement of the coordinates of ground and surface targets, selection and recognition of moving ground and surface targets, real-beam mapping, target designation of air-to-surface missiles, the use of guided air-to-air missiles, detection and measurement of coordinates of air targets, low-altitude flight, detection of dangerous ground obstacles.
The helicopter is equipped with the President-S on-board defense complex, which includes sensors and optical-electronic suppression stations. In containers on the wing consoles placed devices for the ejection of false thermal targets. The use of several emitters located on an aircraft, a digital control system and operational reprogramming of operating modes significantly increases the likelihood of countering the threat of a missile attack. Tests of the station confirmed its high efficiency. The latest combat launches of the latest generation MANPADS were reliably neutralized by the optoelectronic countermeasures of the station.
NAR and ATGM launchers, containers with grenade launchers and cannons of 23 mm caliber, bombs of caliber up to 500 kg can also be mounted at four suspension points.
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