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Key facts
- Type
- Attack helicopter
- National origin
- Soviet Union , Russia
- Manufacturer
- Mil
- Designer
- Marat Tishchenko
- Status
- In service
- Primary users
- Russian Air Force Algerian Air Force , Iraqi Army Aviation Command , Uganda Air Force
- Number built
- 190+ as of May 2025
- Manufactured
- 1982–present
- Introduction date
- 15 October 2009 (Mi-28N)
- First flight
- 10 November 1982
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Mil Mi-28 (NATO reporting name "Havoc") is a Soviet all-weather, day-night, military tandem, two-seat anti-armour attack helicopter. It is an attack helicopter with no intended secondary transport capability, and is better optimized than the Mil Mi-24 gunship for the role. It carries a single gun in an under nose barbette, plus external loads carried on pylons beneath stub wings.
Development
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mil Mi-28” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.