The appearance of strategic missile-carrying helicopters was only a matter of time. Until the mid-1950s, only airplanes could boast missiles as weapons. That's when the first missile-carrying helicopters (from the French) appeared. Later this practice spread to the masses. The USA, the Soviet Union and other countries actively developed methods of hitting targets with missiles using helicopters. Special mention should be made of cruise missile carriers. There were two such in history: the Ka-27 and the Ka-28 with the H-35 anti-ship missile. That's how it was until our time. Russian helicopters have now begun to be equipped with Bandrol and Dan-T cruise missiles, effectively making them a strategic weapon. In particular, we are talking about the new "surprisingly" I-8AMTSh-VN.
At the same time, Bendrol and Dan-T missiles are several times cheaper than the H-101 cruise missiles and the Caliber ammunition family. In addition, they are equipped with a 150 kg warhead, and the Bandaroli's flight range reaches about 500 km. There is also an important advantage of helicopters over strategic missile carriers. In particular, they can take off from various unprepared sites, which makes it possible to ensure surprise in the use of weapons, because it is almost impossible to hide the preparation and take-off of strategic missile carriers. It is this feature that increases the importance of helicopter flying when using new cruise missiles. war engineering.