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2,648. Developed from. Mil Mi-8. The Mil Mi-24 ( Russian: Миль Ми-24; NATO reporting name: Hind) is a large helicopter gunship, attack helicopter and low-capacity troop transport with room for eight passengers. [ 1] It is produced by Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant and was introduced by the Soviet Air Force in 1972.
Operation Mount Hope III. Operation Mount Hope III was a top secret clandestine American military operation to capture a Soviet-made Mil Mi-25 "Hind-D" attack helicopter, an export model of the Soviet Mi-24. The aircraft had been abandoned in the conflict between Libya and Chad .
One Mi-24VP flew with the Delta-H tail rotor of the Mil Mi-28. Mi-24VU. (Hind-E) Indian training version of Mi-24V. Mi-24VD. A version produced in 1985 to test a rear defensive gun. Mi-24RKhR. (Hind-G1) NBC reconnaissance model, which is designed to collect radiation, biological and chemical samples.
The S-5 is a 55 mm (2.2 in) calibre unguided rocket fired from a 57 mm calibre tube. It is used by fighter bombers and helicopters. It consists of a steel body containing a solid fuel rocket, and a high-explosive warhead with a mechanical impact fuse. At the rear of the rocket is an elongated exhaust nozzle, with eight attached forward folding ...
The Mi-4 was designed in response to the American H-19 Chickasaw and the deployment of U.S. helicopters during the Korean War.While the Mi-4 strongly resembles the H-19 Chickasaw in general layout, including the innovative engine position in front of the cockpit, it is a larger helicopter, able to lift more weight and built in larger numbers.
[39] [40] The Ukrainian military said it had captured 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi) of Russian territory in a week, while Russian authorities acknowledged that Ukraine had captured 28 settlements by 13 August. [41] Ukraine established a military administration for the territory under its control on 15 August 2024.
Mil Mi-8. The Mil Mi-17 ( NATO reporting name: Hip) is a Soviet-designed Russian military helicopter family introduced in 1975 (Mi-8M), continuing in production as of 2021 at two factories, in Kazan and Ulan-Ude. It is known as the Mi-8M series in Russian service. The helicopter is mostly used as a medium twin-turbine transport helicopter, as ...
1. On 9 November 2020, a Russian Mil Mi-24 helicopter ( NATO reporting name "Hind") was shot down by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. It was shot down near Yeraskh, in Armenia, a few kilometers away from Azerbaijan 's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, as a result of fire from the ground from man-portable air ...