My favorite choppa of all time.
If not for its size, this looks much easier to maintain than the newer Toyota twin - turbocharged 3.4-liter V6 engines.
MIL MI-24 HIND
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My favorite choppa of all time.
If not for its size, this looks much easier to maintain than the newer Toyota twin - turbocharged 3.4-liter V6 engines.
Commie bullshit trash GTFO guy
Very Neat bird ahead of its time. The 160th DAP is kinda reminiscent of the HIND, so the design and mission has validity. . Until shoulder fired ada became a thing, these were kings of the battlefield.
IIRC the Stinger program was both accelerated and was altered to allow head-on acquisition of targets in large part because of the Hind...
They were flying tanks, but not Stinger-immune!
The agency offered (through cutout Soldier of Fortune magazine) a 1 million dollar reward for anyone who would defect with a Hind. Problem was that they specified that it had to be landed in Central America. Which made it a bit difficult... since not many Hinds were flying in the Western Hemisphere. But there were a couple of dozen in Nicaragua and Peru... so they went fishing! No bites.
Sirhr
They were flying tanks, but not Stinger-immune!
The agency offered (through cutout Soldier of Fortune magazine) a 1 million dollar reward for anyone who would defect with a Hind. Problem was that they specified that it had to be landed in Central America. Which made it a bit difficult... since not many Hinds were flying in the Western Hemisphere. But there were a couple of dozen in Nicaragua and Peru... so they went fishing! No bites.
Sirhr
I liked it in Red Dawn, Rambo: First Blood Part 2, and Rambo III, which really should've been named Rambo 2: First Blood Part 3.
Oh and Top Gun: Maverick
Oh and Top Gun: Maverick
Eeewww.
The sister that never gets included in the photographs.
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The one in red Dawn was a specially modified puma. There weren’t any in the west at the time.
I seem to recall that the military vehicles that Millus had modified to be part of the Russian convoy absolutely freaked people out. Because they looked so realistic that people didn’t realize they were filming a movie.
That makes sense. From what I've read just about every Russian piece of hardware was a modified something else. Also speaking of modified helicopters, airwolf is a commercial helo with so much stuff tacked on it became almost too heavy.
The model number for that helo’s easy to remember - it was a 222
“Blue Thunder” was an Alouette, if you’re into that kind of Trivia…
I still remember the company’s name.
One of the precursors of Aerospatiale, “Sud Aviation.”
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That’s not true or an accurate recollection of the rumor
People claim hovering more than 15-20 seconds overloads the engines when fully loaded.
Strange rumor indeed, considering the Mi-24 is basically a loosely reconfigured Mi-8 with a near - identical turbine / transmission package, though with a higher - torque gearbox in the former…
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It was in an old Air & Space Quarterly magazine - it would take forever for me to find that particular article again.
I do remember though that I was stunned at the short amount of time it could hover over the course of engine lifetime.
I do remember though that I was stunned at the short amount of time it could hover over the course of engine lifetime.
So the guy in the video mentions the cockpit color scheme of Soviet / Russian military aviation, and as I wasn't previously aware of this, it got me curious…
MiG-15 (needs some proper detailing done, obviously - perhaps some clay bars?)
MiG-21
MiG-25
MiG-29
MiG-31
I wonder if there’s a story behind it
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That almost looks like the Mi-28's gun...
20mm, not 30mm?
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South African, I see...
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I'll say one thing, flying in a Bangladeshi maintained UN Mi-8/17 in central Africa is pretty cool of you get the chance. Its like rolling the dice while playing "set the holster on the table" with a P320.
You can service it yourself with basic tools and get back flying a few minutes after you crash…
But it’s gotta have a cabin for my luggage and pets, too…
For some reason, I thought that was the Cheyenne.
Even rotor wash can't fuck up that hair.
When AI says “cockpits” is it talking about the ones with 26 percent body fat? ‘Cause they usually need some Pilates!
Sirhr
I just read that the hinds exhaust design that spat it out to the side well away from the rotor wash is part of what made it more succeptible to heat seekers.
Looking cool is half the battle. Me and the French protection detail were trading hair care secrets.
There is only so much you can do to hide the heat from a jankin n bankin turbine ....baffles,bricks ,flares etc hell an abrams turbine set another abrams on fire just from a long hard tow on a bar....oh and MPAD's aint getting dumber sensors .
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You are correct, looking cool is half the battle....... where are your Poppy fields like in my picture?.......
(I am standing)
Unfortunately where I was, these people dont exactly cultivate nuthin. They're a bit too lazy for that. They prefer their UN food distribution points LOLYou are correct, looking cool is half the battle....... where are your Poppy fields like in my picture?.......
(I am standing)
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Yep..... I know. I too have spent way too much time in that shithole.
well ya can't blame them they don't have too much to begin with so when rich super-power nations show up buying friendship why not ....i re-call years ago a camera crew imbedded with a knock n talk and a US group taking hundreds of dollars from a brief case and putting it on the table in a mud type hut for the village elders . its been our foreign policy for a couple of centuries ....love us or we will burn your damn hut down then we leave in a decade or so and its back to the plow
Actually, yes you can. Spend some time there and you will understand. The White Man and his Western Powers did not make them do the stupid shit they do over and over again.
Had to drag me in dincha?
I have never flown one but did get to climb around a D model at a German air force test facility in Ingolstadt. They are monsters to say the least. The troop carrier compartment is really cramped given how many infantry troops they were supposed to be able to carry.
According to the test pilots we spoke with they were more nimble than you might expect, extremely reliable, and it was damned near impossible to overload them (a problem we dealt with daily flying AH-1s).
The cockpits were interesting...analog everything as one might expect. The sealed canopy necessitated an air conditioning system, we had them too but the Hind could run theirs at a fully loaded OGE hover. We would have over-temped the engine had we tried that. The pilot's station had an inertial moving-map display that was an actual paper map stuck in a holder with a pointer showing where you were. Not sure how accurate it was but my guess is it could tell you within a couple kilometers <G>.
The gunner's station was an abortion. In order to provide accurate 12.7 fire or use the ATGMs he'd have to pivot about 45 degrees right in order to put his head down into the telescopic sight unit and grab the cadillacs. I remember both stations had fans to circulate the air but there were no guards on them. You could lose a finger if you weren't careful.
I have a photo I took in the pilot's station somewhere. I'll see if I can find it after work today.
Yeah. OK. It's all the white mans fault. Cool story. You have no idea what youre talking about.
European colonial powers didn't find Wakanda when they got here. They found spear-chuckers practicing witchcraft still being hunter-gatherers with some husbandry activities. When the colonial times ended and were no longer pushed/guided to maintain what had been built over the decades/centuries... everything fell apart. The country I'm in was known as "the bread basket of Africa" until the 1960's when all the bleeding hearts called for an end to bad bad colonialism.... Competition between ethnic groups caused civil war which destroyed nearly all organized agriculture activities, etc. Tens of thousands died and poverty skyrocketed.
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