All russian gatling guns are gas powered if i recall they come in 12.7 soviet , 23 and 30mm variants . They also made Gast principle 23mm and 30 mm autocannons , 2 barrels - the recoil of one powers the other giving rpms of around 3300 , might not be that impressive considering modern revolver cannons but the guns are much lighter and easier to maintain also require no outside power source .

Gas-powered firearms are an old concept.

@@aymonfoxc1442 yes, but gas-powered rotary machine guns are extremely uncommon. This is what I was getting at.

@@black.baron_angel That's fair. I don't mean to come across as rude. I think the first designs that could fit in this category were from the nineteenth century but one may even stretch back to the eighteenth century but it's a hard one to track down.

Stingers proved to be excellent at just that. That's why the Americans gave a lot of Stingers to their political friend Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan so he could annoy the Soviets with them. The Soviets didn't take that kindly and buried land mines everywhere as revenge among other nasty things. It would later turn out that Mr Laden felt very used and betrayed after the Americans promptly left as soon as the Soviet Union fell. But Mr Laden still had a lot of Stinger missiles in his possession...

actually the chadian govt offered it to us and that particular bird was being used at fort rucker in air defense training as of 2005!!!

@@andersjjensen That is heavily disputed: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_assistance_to_Osama_bin_Laden

@@MattBellzminion there is a reason why you cant reference wikipedia in college lol. Get better and more reliable sources for your debate

yeah right..

You sure about that? We had one on the Tarmac at Hurlburt field…. I wonder where that one came from then

@@TraxxofAOT According to the Museum at least. Some could have be captured in Iraq or covertly purchased from other nations (Poland for example).

@@TraxxofAOT Its probably in the Museum. They don't tend to lie about provenance like that. The one at Hurlburt could have come from a number of places. The US bought a lot of the larger surplus military equipment in the 90s from a lot of the break away states to keep it out of the hands of various non-state groups. Could have also been seized from Iraq during the Gulf War as well.

@@TraxxofAOT We trained against an operational Hind at Ft. Polk in the mid 90's. I wonder where it came from?

The U.S. got some Afghan ones from Pakistan and some during the Persian Gulf War

Wolverines!!!!!!!!

There were some early-ish GI Joe comics, featuring the 'Oktober Guard', that included Hinds as well... that was my introduction to them :)

@@alyssinwilliams4570 Least Cobra Commander would have wiped the Taliban. He never took a nap!

I the the movie Red Scorpion used the same helicopter to stand in as a Hind

In one episode of Firefly Kayleigh is scrounging parts in a junkyard. You see behind her the obvious outline of a Hind, but it's just a shell. It's probably what they used for the cosmetics on the Puma in Red Dawn.

They say your old ride can outrun an AH-64 👍

D model or later, yes. And bear in mind these were the MH-47G variants, loaded with a lot of extra armor, fuel and countermeasures. I believe the blades were different as well, stronger but with less +

less load capacity.

Its still not an F-22 Raptor video. But yes this one is good.

To be fair this comment is kinda cringey Also to be fair an American explaining how words work to an English person is fucking hilarious

That's the only reason I recognized it straight away.

He must be crazy to fly a Hind in this weather...

I specifically opened this video to look for this quote

@@PSkullKidDnazen same lol

Snaaaaaaaaakkkkeee!

That's how the Russians do it. Same for the Foxbat.

@@ratagris21 and the flanker

I would've thought that America could've done that with the A10, or Nasa with the space shuttle, it was a good platform, it just needed updating.

kind of like we been doing with the AH-1

@@derwindhund116 space shuttle had a lot of compromises and was meant as one component of a larger program NASA never really got funded for, and was never capable of its intended turn around time If there's one thing that NASA should've done it with, it was the Saturn family. We spent 40 odd years without it only to rebuild the capability from space shuttle spare parts.

It should have won on looks alone.

Both were better than the rent a wreck f35. The USA forever owns them and makes other country’s pay so much for them they can’t afford any other airforce themselves.

VF-23 is beautiful and a capable plane. But the company knowledge was needed for the production of the future raider bomber …

Ahhh another ignorant folk maybe go tell that to the swiss whey they choose the f35 for being both better and cheaper than the rest of the competion which included the Typhoon,Gripen,Rafael and F-18E Super hornet.

Thanks :)

One of the best presenters on KZfaq.

@@Sideprojects Seriously, you'd make a great audiobook narrator. As a librarian I listen to plenty who have ZERO interest in the subject matter and shows, I could listen to you discuss special ops missions all day.

if WW3 happens, I want Simon to narrate it.

War Thunder: Write that down! Write that down!

My dad flew a CH46 for like a hundred years in the Marine Corps. He swears that bird is still flying. Great helicopters 👍

1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) used converted CH-47 into gunships which they called Guns-a-go go - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jbOnlqyJu8rTmac.html When I transitioned into the CH-47 in early '69, my flight instructor had been a pilot on this huge gunship platform.

@@davehertleLove to hear some of those stories my friend. *btw cool last name 😎

@@IrishMike22 Yea Stolen Valor. No one falls for some BS about flying helo's for a 100 years, lmao!!

I've never seen a you tube video get Chinook specs right, they always confuse "A" model numbers for some reason. I'm also pretty sure they used either a D or E model for this.

@@devin1983 Which model was it when they changed the name to "Chi-Nuke"?

Devin being at the time that mission took place, and being the Nightstalkers, it was more than likely a modified D model. They didn’t get the MH-47E until right before Desert Shield/Storm. 👍🏻

Sorry about that, thanks for the correction :).

Sideprojects no problem! Keep up the good work, I LOVE this channel!

Shin-nuc

Haven't heard a MI 24 called a 25 either. Had to look that one up

ShihNOOK is how it tends to be pronounced in the Pacific Northwest, without a pause between the syllables.

My tribal buddies say it as “shin-nook”. As in lower leg bone and small corner area of a room used for reading. I will go with their pronunciation.

Yeah "shin-nook" as in bone, room is how I have always referred to that aircraft. "Chin-nuke" sounded weird and I at first thought it was some Russian help.

It's too big to be a truly effective attack helicopter. The cobra x and the Apache have a fuselage that is less than 1 m wide which makes it much smaller target. And of course it's far more maneuverable. The Russian bird is also relatively easy to hit and knocked down with heat seeking missile

It was sometimes called "the flying tank.

*Soviet

In spite of what others on here apparently think, I was faced down by a Hind-D on the Czech border back in 1984, and I assure you it was very intimidating...strangely enough all I had was an M-16 and no heat seeking missile.

@@ExpatriatePaul I did not say it wasn't a powerful weapons system. It certainly killed lots of people. However I note that you are still here to talk about it. Soviets like big things. And they like things that do everything. Which is normally some thing the American Air Force gets accused of. Also if you look at the successor to this helicopter, it looks an awful lot like the Apache

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Not intended but if you wanted to we threw it I

Has the 160th ever had anything other than rotary-winged aircraft?

There is a Today I Found Out video called 'A TIFO story, how it's made'' btw I haven't actually seen it yet, it's in my watch list but I imagine it covers the topic you are asking for (that is the reason I clicked on it as well) I plan to watch soon but there's just so much good content to cover right now that I haven't gotten round to it yet..

@@J3diMindTrix Awesome, thanks!

I have a side mission for you....

I would argue that these great folks ARE accomplished educators -online media is amazing.

What, for putting out videos just like ones put out a year ago by Dark Skies and Mark Fleton. This isn't the first time they have copied something done by some one else. I swear they go looking for video ideas and then just remake others work.

@@Khalifrio My god, it's like history can only be told once...

Yes, multi tasking with skill, being able to load and shoot while driving lol.

@@UmVtCg Yes, now you mention it, I believe I fought them in some old Commodore Amiga game (my Amiga computer probably with a processor more powerful than in the helicopter).

yes and no. For the US there aren't that many times when a jack of all trades attack helicopter would make more sense then a mixed flight of attack and transport helicopters, but for smaller nations that can't fund their military to the lengths that the US can, a jack of all type could be far more useful considering they may otherwise be forced into either only transport or only attack helicopters. The Soviet Union exporting Mi25's is a bit of a masterstroke, even if it's not necessarily the best airframe that the Soviet Union itself could have fielded.

A Geographics, perhaps?

Another commenter said it was a flyworthy mock-up based on a SA330 Puma.

I realize that this is answering a pretty old post, but I can shine a bit of light on the rolling takeoff - the real weakness of the Mi-24/25 design was that it was woefully underpowered in terms of power through the rotor system. If you look at pictures, you'll see that the winglets have a pretty high alpha (angle of attack/angle up). If I remember right (and this was from a familiarization about 30 years ago), at cruising speed, the wings actually provided around 30% of the lift required to keep the aircraft in the air. The pilots that flew them in for us said that they were almost impossible to hover, particularly at high elevations or on hot days. So, I'm not surprised that they were doing rolling takeoffs. And as an added tidbit, the Hind brought in for us to familiarize with had one cool feature that American helicopters still don't have: if you ding a rotor on an Apache or a Blackhawk, congrats: you now have an $80,000 paperweight. The Hind blades, on the other hand, were explicitly designed to allow maintenance crews to cut sections out of the rotor and then weld in completely new sections. A quick track and balance, and they'd be off to the races. A completely different mindset, but I can't say it was wrong.

Mostly due to figuring out the Hind made for a nearly unmissable target.

Homestead Air Force Base

until you turn too tight and it cuts it's own tail off or a stinger comes by!!!

Southern museum of flight in Birmingham, Alabama.

The only consistent reality of the Cold War for both sides; the smaller allies/customers ALWAYS lost the sensitive weaponry. Honestly a list and summary of every time it happened could be pretty cool. (the more ridiculous ones especially)

Mi-24s were domestic Soviet. Mi-25's were "export" versions.

"Only in AMERICA"

MI-24D with worse equipment was exported as MI-25.