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The Mil Mi-26 (Russian: Миль Ми-26, NATO reporting name: Halo) is a Soviet/Russian heavy transport helicopter. Its product code is Izdeliye 90 . Operated by both military and civilian operators, it is the largest helicopter to have gone into serial production .
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.
The 2nd MI BN (AE) was deactivated in Germany on 15 November 1991 or 15 August 1992. [1] [13] It was reactivated again on 26 January 2001 in Darmstadt, Germany, where it was redesignated and reorganized under the 66th MI Brigade as the 2nd MI BN. It relocated to Wiesbaden, Germany, in November 2008, where its current mission is analyzing and ...
August 19 - An overloaded Mi-26 transport helicopter was hit by an Igla missile and crashed into a mine field, killing some 127 soldiers aboard, the greatest loss of life in the history of helicopter aviation. The Russian military command said that federal forces have killed 39 Chechen fighters in the past two days; the report could not be ...
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; Mil Mi-32, 1982 - three rotor super ...
A Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 helicopter crashed at Chapar Feroze Khel near Peshawar, Pakistan due to a technical fault resulting in 26 fatalities. [234] 3 July A Belgian Air Component Piper L-21B Super Cub crashes on take-off at Goetsenhoven Military Airfield, Flanders, Belgium killing the 2 crew. The aircraft which was used as a glider-tug ...
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NATO reporting name Common name Haitun: Harbin Z-9: Halo: Mil Mi-26: Hare: Mil Mi-1: Harke: Mil Mi-10: Harp: Kamov Ka-20: Hat: Kamov Ka-10: Havoc: Mil Mi-28: Haze: Mil Mi-14