Catalogue No: | C0854 |
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Category: | Vehicles/Platforms |
Object Type: | Model |
Object Name: | Mil Mi-24D Assault Helicopter Gunship |
Part No: | None |
Serial No: | None |
Manufacturer: | Unknown |
Division: | Unknown |
Platform(s): | Mil Mi-24D Attack Helicopter |
Year of Manufacture: | Unknown |
Dimensions: |
Width (mm): 530 Height (mm): 160 Depth (mm): 420 Weight (g): 2,000 |
Location: | Cupboard CD (Models) [Main Store] |
Russian Air Force (post Afghanistan up-grade) NATO code "Hind D"
The side of the display case bears this information:
Mil Mi-24D
Assault Helicopter Gunship
Russian Air Force (post Afghanistan up-grade) NATO code "Hind D"
Length Overall: 64' 11"
Length of Fuselage: 57' 5½"
Main Rotor Diameter: 56' 9"
Tail Rotor Diameter: 12' 10"
Height: 14' 6¼"
Wingspan: 21' 5½"
Ceiling: 14,765'
Max. Ordnance: 5,291 lb.
Empty Weight: 18,819 lb.
Normal Take Off Weight: 24,250 lb.
Product: 2,500 + (over 600 exported)
Powerplant: Two 2,200shp Klimov (Isotov) TV3-117 Series III Turboshafts
Max Speed: 192 mph
Range on Internal Fuel: 466 miles
Combat Radius with Maximum Military Load: 99 miles
Combat Radius with two drop tanks: 155 miles
Combat Radius with four drop tanks: 179 miles
Internal Fuel Capacity: 469 Imp. Gallons
Optional Cabin Tank: 187 Imp. Gallon
Drop Tanks: up to four, each of 110 Imp. Gall
Armament:
• One Four Barrelled 12.7mm (0.5") YakB-12.7 Gatling type Machine Gun mounted on a remotely controlled under-nose SSPU-24 turret. Maximum Rate of Fire: 4,200 rounds per minute.
• Four 9M17P Skorpion (NATO Code AT-2 Swatter) radio Guided anti-tank missiles
• Four UV-32 rocket pods each containing thirty-two S-5-57mm unguided rockets.
Design work began in 1966 and the prototype, developed from the Mil Mi-8 (NATO code Hip), first flew on 19th September 1969. The resulting Mil Mi-24 first appeared in 1973 and was first seen by Western observers in 1974.
Following combat evaluation in Afghanistan the Mil Mi-24 was upgraded:
• L-166V-11E Ispanka Microwave Pulse Infra-red Jammer (NATO code "Hot Brick")
• Strap on IR Flare / Chaff dispensers fitted to tail boom
• Modified exhausts
• Dielectric bulges on nose, housing aerials for SPO-15 Beryoza Radar Warning System