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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.
It lacked the four-barrel Yak-B 12.7mm machine gun under the nose. Mi-24U. (Hind-C) Training version without nose gun and wingtip stations. Mi-24BMT. Small number of Mi-24s converted into minesweepers. Mi-24D. (Hind-D) The Mi-24D was designed to be a more pure gunship than the earlier variants.
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 .
As of 28 May 2024 at least 29 Mi-8/Mi-8MTPR-1 have been lost and 11 damaged in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. Mil Mi-24 Soviet Union/ Russia: Rotorcraft: Attack: 1972: 328: 328: As of 28 May 2024 at least 4 Mi-24P, 4 Mi-24V/P and nine Mi-35M have been lost in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. Mil Mi-26 Soviet Union/ Russia: Rotorcraft ...
Produced. 1980–present. Number built. Over 300 as of 2015 [1] The Mil Mi-26 (Russian: Миль Ми-26, NATO reporting name: Halo) is a Soviet / Russian heavy transport helicopter. Its product code is Izdeliye 90. Operated by both military and civilian operators, it is the largest helicopter to have gone into serial production.
A Russian Air Force Mi-28. The Mi-28 is a new-generation attack helicopter that functions as an air-to-air and air-to-ground partner for the Mi-24 Hind and Ka-50 Hokum. The five-blade main rotor is mounted above the body midsection, short, wide, tapered, weapon-carrying wings are mounted to the rear of the body midsection.
Maritime strike aircraft carrying Sea Eagle missile. Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21. Soviet Union. Interceptor. MiG-21 Bison. 40 [11] Being phased out. [12] AEW&CS.
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 ...