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The Mi-24 was popular with ground troops, since it could stay on the battlefield and provide fire as needed, while "fast mover" strike jets could only stay for a short time before heading back to base to refuel. The Mi-24's favoured munition was the 80-millimetre (3.1 in) S-8 rocket, the 57 mm (2.2 in) S-5 having proven too light to be effective.
The Yakushev-Borzov YakB-12.7 mm [1] is a remotely controlled 12.7×108mm caliber four-barrel rotary heavy machine gun developed by the Soviet Union in 1973 for the Mil Mi-24 attack gunship and low-capacity troop transporter, with 1470 rounds, which can also be mounted in GUV-8700 machine-gun pods with 750 rounds.
(Menefee Airways Inc, 2111 Burgundy St, New Orleans, LA) Menefee Crescent [1] Mentzel ... Mil Mi-24; Mil Mi-26; Mil Mi-28; Mil Mi-30; Mil Mi-34 ... [24] Minina MG.3 ...
The Mi-24 went from the drawing board to the first test-flights in less than eighteen months, with the first models being delivered to the Soviet Armed Forces for evaluation in 1971. As a result of the speedy development, the initial Mi-24 variants had a number of problems: lateral roll, weapon sighting issues, and a limited field of view for ...
Mil Mi-24 variants; Mil Mi-25, - Export version of Mi-24; Mil Mi-26, 1977 - Heavy transport helicopter, world's heaviest helicopter. NATO reporting name Halo. Mil Mi-27 - Proposed airborne command post variant of Mi-26; Mil Mi-28, 1984 - Combat helicopter. NATO reporting name Havoc. Mil Mi-30, 1972 - tiltrotor aircraft project
Former aircraft operated by the Mongolian Air Force includes: Lavochkin La-5, Polikarpov I-15 and I-16 fighters, Tupolev TB-3 bombers, Polikarpov R-5 reconnaissance bombers, Polikarpov Po-2, Antonov An-2, Ilyushin Il-14, and Lisunov Li-2 transports, Yakovlev Yak-11, and Yak-18 trainers, MiG-15 and MiG-21 jet fighters, Mil Mi-4 and Mi-24 ...
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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.