Mil Mi-24 is a twin-engine combat helicopter supposed for close support of ground forces, destruction of armored targets and transportation of persons or cargo. The Mi-24 is not an instantaneous counterpart to the USA AH-64 Apache, since unlike this and other Western attack helicopters it's also capable of transporting up to eight troops. As a mix gunship and troop transport, the Hind combat helicopter has no direct NATO counterpart.The combat helicopter is a flying infantry fighting vehicle, that blends features of each transport and attack helicopters. Soviet pilots known as the aircraft 'letayushiy tank' or flying tank. A characteristic feature of the Mi-24 is a load cabin connected with the flight-deck, which is 2.83 m long, 1.46 m wide and 1.2 m high. it's can accommodating up to armed 8 troops; they can fire from their small arms fixed in mountings on side windows which can be opened. The cabin is accessible by a vertically opening clamshell door on all sides of the fuselage.
