Mil Mi-24D "Hind" - the USSR/ Russian/ Polish heavy attack helicopter

Mil Mi-24 (NATO code: "Hind") - a heavy combat helicopter of the USSR production of all-metal semi-monococ construction with retractable landing gear. The rotors are of a classic scheme with a main rotor and a steering tail rotor. The machine is equipped with two TW-3-177MT turbine engines of various models, each with a power of 2200 h. p. The prototype took off for the first flight in September 1969, serial production took place from 1970 to 1983. The main impetus for the development of the Mi-24 was the new tactical and operational assumptions of the USSR army, which in the late 1960s began to pay much attention to the use of combat attack helicopters in their offensive operations. Initially, the Mi-8 performed this role perfectly, but based on its components, it was decided to create a heavily armed helicopter, faster and capable of transporting up to 8-10 paratroopers. Thus was born the Mi-24, which is a kind of revolutionary, unique in its concept and at the time of its operation (in the early 1970s), surpassing all Western designs. Many modifications of the basic version (Mi-24) were created. The first chronologically was the Mi-24A version, in which the ergonomics of the machine were improved and more powerful engines were installed. Later, the Mi-24D model was created, which had a different cabin shape - already in tandem arrangement and a different tail rotor construction. An export version was also created, called the Mi-35. The very successful Mi-24 was widely exported to the Warsaw Pact countries, as well as to Libya and Ethiopia. Mi-24 helicopters participated in many armed conflicts, including: the Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia, but became most famous in the Afghan war (1979–1989), where the Mi-24 became the "workhorse" of the USSR army and was very effective. The Mujaheddin called the Mi-24 helicopters "the devil's chariot".

A super-complex, super-designed, super-detailed model for super-modelers... It details everything, that can be depicted in a model of this scale: cabin equipment, chassis, its niches, weapons and their suspension pylons, it is possible to make opening or open engine hoods and the engines themselves, the landing compartment is perfectly recreated, external detailing. There is a small reserve of colors and You can "combine" something more from the glue-up boxes of the other sides of the part. The textual instruction is large and detailed in Polish, the graphic one is large, detailed, quite clear and easy to read !!!!! The model recreates the appearance of the Polish AF 49 Combat Helicopter Regiment machine No. 480, which participated in the Polish PKW mission in Iraq in October 2007 and operated from the Al-Kut base. Antiquarian publication.