Mil Mi-28

what is it?

The Mil Mi-28 (NATO reporting name "Havoc") is a Soviet heavy-weight, all-weather, day-night, tandem-seat anti-armour military attack helicopter. It is an attack helicopter with no intended secondary transport capability and is better optimized for the role than the Mil Mi-24 gunship. It carries a single autocannon in a rotating under-nose barbette, plus external loads carried on pylons beneath stub wings.

🔎How to recognise it: 2 turboshaft engines · 17.2 m main rotor

base stats

• speed 320 km/htop speed
• range 435 kmwithout refuelling
• size 11.5 tmax take-off weight
• built 126made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 44 years ago, in 1982.
• 🏎️Top speed is 2.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).

turboshaft: A turbine that turns a shaft, usually a helicopter rotor.

spec sheet

first flight

1982-11-10

introduced

2006

status

still flying

number built

126

role

attack helicopter

origin

🇷🇺 Soviet Union

makers

Rostvertol, Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant

engines

2× Klimov VK-2500 / Klimov TV3-117

crew

2

length

17 m

wingspan

4.9 m

rotor diameter

17.2 m

height

3.8 m

max take-off weight

11.5 t

top speed

320 km/h

cruise speed

270 km/h

range

435 km

ceiling

5,700 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.