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Brazilian Air Force Mi-35M Hind


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I share with you, photos of Mil Mi-35M, FAB designated AH-2 Sabre.


The Brazilian Air Force ordered 12 helicopters, based in Porto Velho AB, in service with 2nd Squadron of 8th Aviation Group.


More informations and a lot of photos can de found here:



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I recently spoke to an Apache pilot who's flown other Russian helicopters. He said you have to admire the rugged approach the Russians use with their attack helicopters, but side by side, the Apache comes out ahead by a long shot every time. Not like helicopters dog fight each other, so I don't know that comparing the two is the same as say, comparing an F22 to the Mig 29.

 

Ive never flown either..... so thats all I have.

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It's funny, I can't find any film of a Hind shooting from a hover, is it really possible that the vaunted rooskies can't make a gunship that has enough power to fire from a stable hover?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALFTdSIdShs

 

I guess it's ok, it's not like Brazil has any credible enemies anyway.

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Eh, the guys out here in Texas hover them around all the time. Its a f*cking helicopter. It probably has limited OGE power when its high hot and heavy, but so dos everything else. Well, besides a Chinook.

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Not like helicopters dog fight each other, so I don't know that comparing the two is the same as say, comparing an F22 to the Mig 29.

 

Actually the best thing to kill another helicopter is another helicopter. Cobra and Huey pilots do air to air flights every once in a blue moon and simulate Hinds and a few other foreign helicopters/aircraft. I do know of a few pilots who may or may not have been jumped by foreign non-NATO aircraft in international waters. So while it may seem pretty isolated it actually happens more than you would think. Iranian Cobras and Iraqi Hinds did engage each other in the Iran-Iraq war.

 

Lots of interesting features on that thing though - most obvious being the turned exhausts. Definitely have come a long way from the original which had some interesting cockpit ergonomics/set up. I'd take the best trained aircrew.

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