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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Plane on January 17, 2015, 09:12:06 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiF_MpHcjd0
Pretty good documentary , but the focus changes as it goes.
It begins as an engineering admiration of the Mi-24 , one of the best gunship helicopters ever made.
About halfway through it is about USSR policy and Afghanistan , then it is about Russian conscripts and Mujahadeen , then it is about the conduct of the Afghanistan war, then again it is about Russian conscripts and Mujahadeen plus the stinger missile , then again it is about USSR policy and Afghanistan, finally they mention the Mi-24 again.
If WWIII had happened as a conventional war in Europe, our tanks and troops would have been opposed by thousands of these, very tough helicopters.
(http://theaviationist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Polish-Mi-24.jpg)
http://theaviationist.com/2014/09/10/poland-new-attack-choppers/
Hmmm.... Poland wants better....
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytjMaEhNw6M
This is a better documentary , a lot more about the preliminary thought and development, more about the military reasons for the features , less about the politics .