The Hind possessed a 12.7mm Yak-B Gatling gun (later variants, such as the Mi-24P, possessed a 30mm cannon ... like helicopters were deployed to Afghanistan, they became the icon of the Soviet ...

TASS. October 28 . Four Mil Mi-24P strike helicopters have arrived for the Central Military District’s army aviation brigade stationed in the Sverdlovsk Region in the Urals, the District’s ...

MOSCOW, October 13. /TASS/. Russian Helicopters holding completed repair of the first out of four Mi-24P attack and transport helicopters of Myanmar Air Force under the earlier executed contract ...

But where it possessed impressive firepower and carrying capacity, the Mi-24 lacked maneuverability. Once these hornet-like helicopters were deployed to Afghanistan, they became the icon of the ...