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Cockpit view inside a Russian Ka-52 attack helicopter conducting a low flying sortie over Antonov Airport on 24 February. As the Russian paratroopers landed in growing numbers and fanned out, the Ukrainian garrison was forced to retreat [1] [27] as they started to run out of ammunition. The initial clash had lasted about an hour; while the ...
Russian paratroopers at Tuzla Air Base in Bosnia as members of the Implementation Force, 1997 Russian VDV and U.S. 1st Armored Division soldiers in Bosnia, 1996 In 1992, during the fall of Kabul to the mujahadeen , elements of the 106th Guards Airborne Division carried out the successful evacuation of the former Soviet embassy staff from Kabul ...
A 9K38 Igla launcher and missile. On 19 August 2002, Chechen separatist fighters launched a Russian-made 9K38 Igla shoulder-fired, heat-seeking surface-to-air missile which hit an overloaded Mil Mi-26 heavy transport helicopter of the 487th Separate Helicopter Regiment, causing it to crash-land and burn at Khankala military air base near Chechnya's capital city of Grozny.
Seventeen bodies of those on board had been found by Sunday evening local time, the ministry said. TASS reported Sunday that the helicopter crashed into a hill while flying in poor conditions.
In addition, a helicopter for paratroopers is not only a means of delivery, but also fire support. That is why it was decided to form its own aircraft in the Airborne Forces - airborne units will be able to use their helicopters without unnecessary delay.
Searchers found no survivors among the wreckage of a Russian helicopter that crashed in the far eastern peninsula of Kamchatka with 22 people on board, state news agency TASS said on Sunday.. The ...
Map of crash site released by the Russian Ministry of Defence. By 27 December, the cockpit voice and flight data recorders had been located, and both were later recovered and sent to Moscow for analysis. [10] [11] [12] By 28 December, the bodies of 18 people had been recovered from the sea. [13]
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