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

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 ...

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.

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.

During the first 12 months of the war, 59 attack helicopters – Kamov Ka-52s, and Mil Mi-28Ns and Mi-24s – were destroyed, the analysis suggests, representing almost 30% of the available ...