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18 April 1987 - An Mi-24 assault helicopter is shot down by MANPADS. [8] 22 April 1987 – An Mi-24 assault helicopter was shot down. [8] 18 May 1987 – An Mi-24 attack helicopter was shot down by MANPADS. [8] 28 May 1987 – An Su-25 aircraft was shot down, killing two. [8] 31 May 1987 – An Mi-24 assault helicopter was shot down. [8]
The Mi-24 proved to be highly vulnerable to Russian separatist attacks during the 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine. With the exception of captured aircraft in Crimean airbases the Mi-24 had the highest loss rate of all aircraft in Ukraine's inventory, with 5 being shot down and 4 damaged during the conflict. [51]
The following is an incomplete list of Russian aircraft losses in the Second Chechen War.It includes both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.. The general Russian aircraft losses 1999–2007 consisted of about 45 helicopters (23 Mi-8, 16 Mi-24, three Mi-26 and three others [1]) and 8 fixed-wing aircraft (two Su-24 fighter-bombers and six Su-25 ground-attack aircraft).
After the first month of the invasion, Justin Bronk, a British military observer, counted the Russian aircraft losses at 15 fixed-wing aircraft and 35 helicopters, but noted that the true total was certainly higher. [76] In contrast, according to the United States, 49 Ukrainian fighter aircraft were lost by 18 March. [77]
The aircraft was assigned to the 318th FIS at McChord AFB, WA. 3 March Italian Air Force Lockheed C-130H Hercules MM61996 of the 46 Aerobrigata, crashed into Monte Serra, 15 kilometers E of Pisa, Italy. 19 April Soviet Air Force Antonov AN-24 crashed into the chimney of the Moe distillery in Soviet-occupied Estonia, killing all 21 soldiers on ...
The Regiment's Company E fly the slingloaded Mil Mi-24 out of Chad, known as Operation Mount Hope III. In June 1988, the unit received a short-notice directive to recover a Soviet made Mi-25 Hind (Mi-24 Hind export version) attack helicopter from a remote location in Chad. The Hind was abandoned by the Libyans after 15 years of fighting, and ...
Soviet/Russian Aircraft Weapons Since World War Two, Yefim Gordon, ISBN 1-85780-188-1; Mil Mi-24 Hind Attack Helicopter, Yefim Gordon and Dimitri Komissarov, ISBN 1-84037-238-9; Jane's Air Launched Weapons Issue 36, Duncan Lennox, ISBN 0-7106-0866-7; VTTV-99 S-8 rocket specs; Army-2018: Zaslon Center presents new 80mm MLRS based on 4x4 UAZ pickup
On 15 August 2010, the Russian Air Force temporarily grounded its fleet of Su-25 ground attack aircraft to investigate a crash that happened during a training mission. The Russian Defense Ministry said that the plane crashed on 6 August 2010, 60 km to the north-west of Step air base in Siberia, according to RIA Novosti.