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Ukraine’s military has released a video of the burning wreckage of a Russian Mi-8 helicopter on the war’s southern frontline, saying the aircraft was shot down by paratroopers. “The Russian ...
Ukraine’s military has released a video of the burning wreckage of a Russian Mi-8 helicopter on the war’s southern frontline, saying the aircraft was shot down by paratroopers. “The Russian ...
The clip purports to show a Ukrainian Magura V5 sea drone destroying a Russian Mi-8 helicopter. It was shared by Ukraine's defence-intelligence agency, commonly known as the GUR.
A Mil Mi-24 helicopter was shot down by the 138th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade using MANPAD near Lukashivka in Sumy Oblast. Drone footage showed the wreckage of the helicopter. [357] 17 March Mi-8: A Mil Mi-8 helicopter was shot down in Kherson Region, the Commander died, while two crewmen survived. [358] 18 March Mil Mi-8
On 9 November 2020, a Russian Mil Mi-24 helicopter (NATO reporting name "Hind") was shot down by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War.It was shot down near Yeraskh, in Armenia, a few kilometers away from Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, as a result of fire from the ground from man-portable air-defense system. [1]
As of 2024, the Mi-26 still holds the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale world record for the greatest mass lifted by a helicopter to 2,000 metres (6,562 ft) – 56,768.8 kilograms (125,000 lb) on a flight in 1982. [10] In July 2010 a proposed Russian-Chinese development of a 33-ton heavy-lift helicopter was announced.
Ukraine's naval drones fired missiles at — and hit — three Russian helicopters earlier this week. The first-of-its-kind combat engagement occurred off the coast of Crimea.
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.