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Revision as of 02:48, 22 May 2011

SOL Mi24

The Mil Mi-24 gunship, NATO reporting name "Hind", is a Soviet attack helicopter commissioned in the early 1970s. Export versions of the same helicopter are sometimes given the model numbers Mi-25 and Mi-35, but presumably the ones used in Ukraine were transferred to the military of the Ukraine before the dissolution of the Soviet Union and are not export variants.

Overview

Well armoured and armed, the Hind has a feature unique among gunships - it has a cargo load that allows it to carry 10 people or up to 1500 kgs of equipment. While the technology is dated by modern standards, the Hind remains a reliable and trustworthy vehicle to patrol the Zone and wipe out any opposition from the skies.

It is armed with a chin-mounted 12.7 mm Gatling type gun, pylon-mounted rockets, and can reach a 300 km/h cruise speed.

[[Video:Hind downed - STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl|thumb|300px|right|A Hind D flying in the Wild Territory and getting shot down by Wolfhound's mercenaries]]

Operators

The Ukrainian Military is the sole operator of the Hind in the Zone and these aircraft are a common sight on the outskirts, as they patrol the skies and occasionally blow a rookie stalker to smithereens. They also used them as a transport for Spetsnaz operatives for certain operations.

Interestingly, Duty has a single Hind parked on top of one of the buildings in the Agroprom Research Institute during the events of Clear Sky, which is absent in Shadow of Chernobyl. Given their military background, it's possible that they, in fact, have access to at least one working gunship.


Notes

  • A pair appear during the assault on the Chernobyl NPP in Shadow of Chernobyl, one of which offloads a squad of Military Stalkers in Strelok's path, and then performs strafing runs on Strelok and Monolith fighters. The other is destroyed by a massive Electro anomaly before it can drop its troops. Despite being annihilated in the blowout, the one gunship which strafes the NPP manages to gather enough anomaly data to make the maps used in Operation Fairway.
  • There is one stalker who managed to save enough money and buy the helicopter. He flew for about 20 minutes over the Zone before the fuel ran out. Now he carries the gas in canisters to the aircraft to get it from near Pripyat.[1]

See also

  • Stingray - A series of Hinds modified by the military for zone use, which were used during the events of Call of Pripyat to secure the center of the zone. They were all destroyed.

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