In the mid-1960s they even started work on converting the Mil Mi-6 — the USSR’s largest and fastest helicopter — to carry paying passengers. Unfortunately this never got past a single ...

The Ukrainian navy—ironically, a fleet without any large ships—got there first, with an unmanned boat that launches explosive ...

These flying beasts were killers. At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed one of the most iconic helicopter gunships in history. The Mil Mi-24 was designed to do one thing ...

such as the behemoth Mil V-12 helicopter, the largest helicopter in history. This large aircraft, which could carry 105 tons, first began with OKB-329’s Mi V-6. Their mission was to create a ...

Over its entire history, the Mil Design Bureau has designed 13 baseline helicopter models, from the light to the super-heavy classes, including the world’s most popular Mi-8 rotorcraft.

TASS/. A center for the maintenance and repairs of Russian-made Mil Mi helicopters has opened in the Peruvian capital of Lima with the support of Russian Helicopters Group, the rotorcraft maker ...

Russian-made Mil Mi helicopters can now undergo maintenance and repairs in Lima, Peru, after facilities to carry out those tasks were opened Monday within a local Air Force compound, it was announced.

The first instance, Ms. Homendy said, involved the helicopter crew members’ possibly not hearing the air traffic controller inform them that the American Airlines jet was “circling” to ...

While Russian attack helicopters, such as the Ka-52 pictured ... the tactics and capabilities of its Kamov Ka-52 ‘Hokum-B', Mil Mi-28 ‘Havoc', and Mil Mi-24/35 ‘Hind' helicopters.