Mi-8 HIP (MIL)

Gary's Combat Aircraft Reference Guide

Country of Origin: CIS (formerly USSR).
Similar Aircraft: Mi-17 Hip H, Puma, Mi-2 Hoplite, Super Frelon.
Crew: Two (three with flight engineer).
Role: Armed assault-transport (24 equipped troops, light weapons, and vehicles).
Armament: 57mm rockets, AT-2c antitank missiles, 12.7mm machine gun, 250kg or 500kg bombs.
Dimensions: Length: 61 ft (18.32 m). Rotor diameter: 70 ft (21.3 m).
Performance Range 286 miles (460 km).

Troops can fire personal weapons through windows. Has four external hard points.

Wings: Large, five-blade main rotor over the engine at the body midsection. Weapon-carrying platform at lower body midsection.

Engine(s): Twin turboshafts mounted on top of the fuselage. Two round air intakes just above the cockpit. Rounded exhaust ports.

Fuselage: Long, bus-like body with rounded nose and glassed-in cockpit. Two fuel pods offset and mounted low on the body. Upswept rear section. Tricycle landing gear.

Tail: Tail boom tapers to the small, swept-back, and tapered fin with rotor on top right or left. Small flats mounted forward of the fin.

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