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 ...

Though the AH-64 Apache vs. Mi-24 Hind is often used differently, comparing them is still interesting. We take a look at the hardware and armaments.

The story of this helicopter's journey begins in the former Soviet Union, then passes through Afghanistan and, after capture and use by American Special Forces and other government agencies in the ...

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.

The Mi-24 was first used in combat during the Ogaden War (1977-78) when it was flown by Ethiopian forces against Somalia and was operated extensively during the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) when ...

The Hind was a flying gunship that became the iconic image of the Soviet Union's war in Afghanistan in the 1980s. It was also a metaphor for the unequal struggle between an advanced technology ...

It was the first time since the Soviet invasion seven years earlier that a mujahedeen fighter had destroyed the most feared weapon in the Soviet arsenal, a Hind attack helicopter.

The mission of escorting large aircraft and act as a "bait" for MANPADS dates back to the the Soviet-Afghan War when it was dubbed "Mandatory Matsurov".

As the former Soviet Union’s premier attack helicopter, the airframe looms large in the history of military aviation and the Cold War. Its place in Afghanistan’s past is also iconic; the Hind ...

The Soviet Mi-24 was a testament to the Soviet preference for brute force and power over finesse or whiz-bang technological wizardry.