“The Osprey Encyclopaedia of Russian Aircraft 1875–1995”.
{| |} The Kamov Ka-25 (NATO reporting name "Hormone") is a naval helicopter, developed for the Soviet Navy in the USSR from 1958. ==Design and development== In the late 1950s there was an urgent demand for anti-submarine helicopters for deployment on new ships equipped with helicopter platforms entering service with the Soviet Navy.
{| |} The Kamov Ka-25 (NATO reporting name "Hormone") is a naval helicopter, developed for the Soviet Navy in the USSR from 1958. ==Design and development== In the late 1950s there was an urgent demand for anti-submarine helicopters for deployment on new ships equipped with helicopter platforms entering service with the Soviet Navy.
Kamov's compact design was chosen for production in 1958.
The Ka-20 was displayed at the 1961 Tushino Aviation Day display. Definitive prototypes of the Ka-25 incorporated mission equipment and corrosion protection for the structure.
==External links== https://web.archive.org/web/20120303004424/http://www.kamov.net/kamov-navy/kamov-ka-25-2/ Kamov aircraft Military helicopters 1960s Soviet anti-submarine aircraft Coaxial rotor helicopters 1960s Soviet helicopters Single-turbine helicopters Aircraft first flown in 1963
A single prototype (SSSR-21110) flown in 1966 Ka-25PS (NATO reporting name 'Hormone-C') Search and rescue and transport version with no weapons bay, radome as Ka-25BSh.
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