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 ...

Respectively taken on Jun. 10 at Rastan and on Jun. 11 at the Idlib village of Farkia, the following videos mark the first involvement of Syrian Mil Mi-24 Hind-D (Mi-25) gunship helicopters in Syria.

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 ...

There is little doubt that Russia's Mil Mi-8/17 medium-transport helicopter family has been a big winner in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The sturdy airframe with lift capability has become a ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This striking image from late 1980s Afghanistan captures a remarkable act of wartime ingenuity and necessity. Standing proudly beside his creation, an Afghan man poses with a custom-made vehicle that ...

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 ...