DCS Mi-24P - "Surprise"

Getting very lucky responding to ground fire- the "missile launch" the gunner called out turned out to be a Svir GLATGM from a T-72B (according to tacview).
Made this skin for the 24P to try to reproduce Abkhazia's Mi-24P "03" before it was overhauled. Googling "Abkhazia Mi-24" will show, this helicopter has some very interesting features. The tail boom is the "petal" camouflage pattern while the body is the standard blob, a mash together of parts evidently from a different 24. I forgot to disable the EVU exhaust diffusers in the mission editor- "03" in the pictures I have seen has its ASO flare dispensers mounted under the tail boom (no choice here, must be mounted mid body) and no EVU.
I originally recorded the whole sortie from startup, taxi, takeoff, sortie, land, but the video file was 250gb recorded and I was not going to edit that whole beast for a casual vid. If I get many requests I will revisit it but I really don't expect it. The replay was imperfect anyway- the DCS replay system in its current form allows slight (or large) differences in replay vs original outcomes. This was run as a solo multiplayer server, which gets around some of the reproducibility issues of sp replays, but the outcome of the 14.5 hitting my 24 was different- In the original flight, I lost functionality of my right wing mounted stores. Oh well, same outcome and looks cooler with the right pod firing as well.

[@RichardDancy-o5z]

White Edward Martinez Eric Gonzalez Anthony