Ka-25 ‘Hormone’

• Twin-rotor submarine hunter • Missile guidance platform

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ulky and square-shaped, the Ka-25

•Hormone’ was developed by the Kamov design bureau in the late-1950s. Its Cold War task was to detect NATO submarines. This is one of tho most challenging jobs of modern warfare, and although the chunky ‘Hormone’ is far from graceful it performs this duty with precision. Once a principal anti-submarine weapon in the Soviet Union, the ’Hormone’ continues to serve Russia today.