First flown on July 7, 1961, the Mil Mi-8 ‘Hip' became one of the most versatile and widely used helicopters in the world, ...

A new video shows a Ukrainian FPV drone attacking a Russian Mi-8 transport helicopter, apparently hitting its tail assembly. A second video shows a Russian Ka-52 helicopter shooting down a ...

Even though the F-14 Tomcat scored only one air-to-air kill during the Gulf War in the form of an Iraqi Mi-8 Hip, ... Broce performed a 7g turn and he visually pick up a Mil Mi-8 Hip armed transport.

Yesterday, the first video of an Mi-8/Mi-17 using the side mounted machine gun to attack rebels near Azaz, was uploaded on Youtube. Today, another video has emerged. It shows (in the first 20 ...

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 ...

The blades on a Russian Mil Mi-8 helicopter spin awfully fast. In order to heft its weight (roughly 7.7 tons empty, or 13.2 tons at its heaviest), the five blades attached to its rotor head have ...

A Russian Mil Mi-8 military helicopter flies near the town of al-Qahtaniyah, in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province close to the Turkish border, on February 4, 2021.

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

The Mi-8 MTV (RF-38376) had been taxiing across the eastern side of the apron after landing when its main rotor blades struck the lighting mast, states the federal air transport regulator Rosaviatsia.

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 ...

The United States, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia and Latvia between them have sent to Ukraine, or soon are sending, 40 Mil Mi-17s and at least two Mi-24s. The Mi-17 is a variant of the Mi-8.

Russia just unwillingly donated to Ukraine an up-armored Mil Mi-8 transport helicopter. According to Ukrainian Pravda and other media in Ukraine, Ukrainian intelligence agents spent six months ...