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.
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-21
MiG-25
MiG-29
MiG-31
I wonder if there’s a story behind it
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