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I'm not sure about that; the Russian Ka-50 coaxial attack helicopter seems reasonably quick, certainly not the fastest helicopter ever but comparable to an Apache at least (315km/h vs 293 km/h respectively, though the Apache has a higher never-exceed speed: 350km/h vs 365km/h)

If you include compound helicopters (using horizontal pusher props or turbojets), coaxial helicopters can certainly be very quick; the S-97 can cruise at 410 km/h, but in that case you have the liabilities of a 'tail rotor' to contend with again. The S-69 could do a blistering 487km/h with it's turbojets, 289km/h without.

One to consider is the Eurocopter X3, a single rotor compound helicopter without a tail rotor. It could do 472km/h and used two tractor propellers with variable pitch to counteract the rotor torque.



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