One Ukrainian Mil helicopter burns. Another lies abandoned. Sometime on or before Wednesday, a trio of Mil Mi-8 or Mil Mi-17 assault helicopters from the Ukrainian army’s 12th Army Aviation Brigade ...

A Russian pilot has defected to Ukraine with a Mi-8 helicopter, Ukraine's intelligence service said. The military-intelligence agency said it was part of a six-month-long secret plot. The helicopter's ...

The Mil Mi-8/17 series of helicopters is a family of twin-engine, multirole transports. The initial Mi-8 prototype first flew in 1961. Later models in the series have been powered by Klimov VK-2500 ...

Russia's defence ministry on 28 May suspended operations using Mil Mi-8 helicopters, following a fatal training accident involving the type. A statement from the ministry says that a Russian air force ...

It was this July that Filip Modrzejewski and Wojciech Mazurkiewicz, thanks to the support of the Polish Army Command and 1st Army Aviation Brigade and 56 Inowroclaw AB, took these amazing air-to-air ...

It was an open question, as Russian forces massed along Ukraine’s borders in late 2021 and early 2022, whether the Ukrainian army’s helicopter pilots would play any meaningful role in the coming wider ...

The pilot of a Russian military helicopter has defected to Ukraine, delivering his fully-intact aircraft and crew to Kyiv’s forces. Ukrainian military intelligence on 23 August said it had engineered ...

A Russian Mil Mi-8 military helicopter flies over a joint Russian and Turkish convoy (not pictured) as it patrolls in oil fields near the town of al-Qahtaniyah, in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh ...

A video recorded by a spectator at the Gelendzhik Air Show in Russia last Thursday shows the terrible moment when a Mil Mi-8 helicopter crashed on the airfield. Russian media reported that two people ...

Russian Helicopters is moving forward with a new-generation helicopter that is intended to replace the hugely successful Mil Mi-8/17 series. The Mil Mi-8/17 series will be replaced by a new-generation ...