Mi-24V Hind-E - Trumpeter's No.05103, released in 2004
Mi-24V (Hind-E) is another improved version, a development of Mi-24D. The major change
consists in the upgraded and more efficient SHTURM-V missile system with 9M114 (AT-6 Spiral) radio-guided anti-tank missiles launched from two pairs of cylindrical pods mounted on
wingtips. Also added were B-8V rocket pods for 20 80mm S-8 rockets, UPK-23-250 pods with two-barrel Gsh-23L and 250 rounds, GUV9A universal pods which can carry a 30mm 9-A-800
automatic granade launcher, or one 12.7mm 9-A-624 four-barrel machine gun and two four-barrel
7.62mm 9-A-622 machine guns. It was equipped with TV3-117V engines with improved height
characteristics and optional exhaust mixer boxes to cool exhaust gasses, and auxiliary
fuel tanks with a capacity of 450 litres. Since the war in Afganistan, Mi-24Vs received radar homing and warning system (RHAWS), infra-red countermeasures (IRCM) and an active IRCM jammer. These equipments were also fitted to some late Mi-24D, which have sometimes been referred to as Hind Ds Mod. The degraded version exported outside the Warsaw Pact was called Mi-25.
