 With the Ka-50s was a Ka-29 to provide reconnaissance and target designation.On 6 January 2001, the Ka-50 used live weapons against a real enemy for the first time.On 9 January, at the entry into a mountain gorge in the area of a settlement named Komsomolskoye, a single Ka-50 accompanied by an Mi-24 used S-8 unguided rockets to destroy a warehouse full of ammunition belonging to Chechen insurgents.