The KA-28 is a simplified export configuration, but shortages sent some examples into Russian Navy service. That decision shows a practical procurement compromise: a navy may accept a lower export standard when preferred airframes are unavailable. The two-crew KA-29 is a transport and combat helicopter built to support Russian naval infantry. Together the variants cover both stopgap fleet demand and the movement and support of marines.
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Export KA-28s fill KA-27 shortages as KA-29s support naval infantry
Russian use of simplified export-standard KA-28s and the KA-29 combat transport show how the Helix family answered both shortages and naval-infantry support needs.