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Mi-24 / Mi-35 - HIND
In the middle of the 60s, while the western countries were looking the helicopter primary as a transport and rescue machine, the soviet army think at them as the air counterpart of the battle tanks.
Heavy armed versions of the Mi-8 Hip were in service in that years when the Mil bureau start working in a new prototype called A-10 . This new helicopter, designed primary as an anti tank weapon begun tests in 1970 and was first saw by the NATO in East-Germany in 1972. The A-10 reach a speed record of 368 km/h
The first versions used a standard helo cockpit but in 1975 appears the Hind-D with the now traditional attack cockpit in a tandem configuration
The later versions, as the Hind-E , used the more sophisticated AT-6 Spiral missiles instead of the AT-2 Swatter and a 23 mm cannon replacing the 12,7 mm machine gun in the turret.
In their better moment, more than 1000 Hinds were in service in the red army and they were extensively used in Afghanistan forming teams with the attack aircraft Sukhoi Su-25 Froogfoot.
MI-35 HELICOPTER UPGRADING MODULAR PROGRAM
EXTENSION OF HELICOPTER LIFE CYCLE
Analysis of documents
Inspection for defects
Repair, replacement of vendor items
Helicopter repair and installation of vendor items
Test, check flight and legalisation of documents
Extended calendar and service lives for the helicopter airframe and components/
ROTOR SYSTEM UPGRADING (COMMONALITY WITH MI-28)
Glass fibre main rotor blades
Elastomeric main rotor hub
X-shaped tail rotor
Altered actuating portion of control system
Reduced weight empty (by 300 kgf), increased hovering ceiling (by 600 m), increased rate of climb, improved operational performance & enhanced combat survivability.
UPGRADING OF AIRFRAME, WEAPONS COMPONENTS AND COMMINUCATIONS SYSTEMS
Non-retractable landing gear
Altered hydraulic system
Stubbier wing
New DB-3U external stores
Multiple tube launchers
Lightweight radio command link unit
Reduced weight empty (by 300 kgf), increased hovering ceiling (by 300 m), increased rate of climb from 9.6 m/s to 12.4 m/s (when program modules 2 and 3 are jointly carried out).
INCREASED EFFECTIVENESS OF WEAPONS SYSTEMS
Ataka missile as part of the airborne armament
Gun turret accommodating GSh-23 gun instead of YakB-12,7 machine gun
Airborne integrated computer system
Laser rangefinder
Igla-V guided weapons system
Enhanced single target destruction effectiveness (by 1.4 - 1.6 times), increased turret gun engagement area (by 2.0 - 2.25 times), enhanced missile effectiveness, enhanced combat effectiveness (by 1.7 - 2.2 times).
ROUND-THE-CLOCK COMBAT OPERATIONS
Night vision goggles (NVGs)
Internal and external lighting compatibe with NVGs
Round-the-clock surveillance/sight system
Upgraded indication
Target detection and identification at night, round-the-clock operation of weapons systems.
THIS PROGRAM ALLOWS ANY COMBINATION OF ABOVE MODULES TO BE CARRIED OUT
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