Blessedly, the world never got to see the Hind helicopters blasting NATO tanks in Central Europe. Instead, these birds were used to terrorize Afghan villagers in the failed Soviet-Afghan War that ...

The Soviet Union produced more than 2,500 HIND variants at the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant beginning in 1972 and used them extensively through out the Soviet War in Afghanistan.

Southern Museum of Flight will receive the mi-24 Soviet helicopter for permanent display this week. Details here... Skip to Article. Set weather. Back To Main Menu Close. Quick Look- ...

However, during the war in Afghanistan, the Hind proved vulnerable to U.S.-supplied heat-seeking Stinger missiles. According to Russian sources, some seventy-four Mi-24 Hind helicopters were lost ...

Though the AH-64 Apache vs. Mi-24 Hind is often used differently, comparing them is still interesting. ... Americans first took note of the Hind during the Soviet-Afghanistan War, ...

During the Soviet-Afghanistan conflict, American CIA operatives armed the Afghan Mujahideen insurgents with the heat-seeking Stingers. The heavily armored Hind was resistant to .50 caliber bullets.

Outside Jalalabad, Afghanistan, 25 years ago this week, an angry young man named Abdul Wahab Quanat recited his prayers, walked onto a farm field near a Soviet airfield, raised a Stinger missile ...

The experiences of the Soviet Air Force in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. Thomas Withington). Of course, Mr. Withington reprinted this passage from another source (The Mil Mi-24 Hind & Mi-28 Havoc ...

In addition to the Hind’s reliability and attack capability, this resonance is another advantage offered by the legendary machine in its new mission: legitimizing a nascent Afghan Air Force. A young ...

Designated “Hind” by NATO, the Soviet Mi-24 was a testament to the Soviet preference for brute force and power over finesse or whiz-bang technological wizardry. These flying beasts were killers.