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On 3 June 2007, a Mil Mi-8 helicopter crashed in Lungi, Sierra Leone, killing all 22 people on board. [62] On 7 April 2013, a Mil Mi-8PS helicopter crashed in Loreto, Peru, killing all 13 people on board. [63] On 2 July 2013, a Mil Mi-8 helicopter crashed near Deputatsky, Sakha Republic, Russia, killing 24 of the 28 people on board. [64]
Helicopter Eurocopter AS355N Écureuil France: Light utility helicopter: In service with the Alpha Group. [109] Mil Mi-8/17 Soviet Union Russia. Transport helicopters: 60 helicopters in service. [citation needed] Mil Mi-26 Soviet Union: N/A [citation needed] Mil Mi-24 Soviet Union: Attack helicopter: N/A [citation needed]
The tank-killing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter costs just $5,171 an hour to operate. The UH-60 Blackhawk, which can carry up to a dozen troops into combat, costs $3,116 an hour, while the Navy ...
MAGURA V5 drone targeting Russian Mil Mi-8 helicopter. On 30 May 2024, the HUR claimed the destruction of two Russian boats of the KC-701 Tuna type with the help of Magura V5 strike marine drones. [14] [15] [16] On 10 August 2024, it destroyed a Russian KS 701 Tunets high-speed boat near the settlement of Chornomorske. [17]
Mil V-5, 1959 - medium single-turboshaft transport helicopter; Mil Mi-6, 1957 - Heavy transportation helicopter. NATO reporting name Hook. Mil V-7, 1959 - experimental four-seat helicopter; Mil Mi-8, 1961 - Multi-purpose helicopter. NATO reporting name Hip. List of Mil Mi-8/17 operators; Mil Mi-9, airborne command post and relay variant of Mi-8
In 2021 it was reported that China was replacing the Russian-made Mi-17 with their own Z-20, except possibly for the Mi-171Sh assault helicopter; the last Mi-17 order was in 2014. [ 3 ] In 2021 the website of Russian Helicopters , the manufacturer, said that the Mi-8/17 was "the most widely operated helicopter in history."
The Ukrainian armed forces have destroyed several of Russia’s fleet of Soviet-era Mi-8 attack helicopters during the course of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion.
Formal development of an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) version of the Mil Mi-8 transport helicopter was authorised by the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee and Council of Ministers in April 1965, with the objective of replacing the Mil Mi-4 in the short-range, shore based anti-submarine role. The new helicopter was required to have an ...