‘A Flying Tank’: Why the Mi-24 Is Called the World’s Only Assault Helicopter | WSJ Equipped
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- As artillery supplies dwindle, Ukraine is turning more frequently to its aging Mi-24 helicopters to counter Russian adversaries. Although obsolete and often older than the pilots, these helicopters will become more important as Ukrainian forces wait for delayed weapons.
WSJ takes a look at why the Mi-24 is referred to as the “flying tank” and the features that make it continue to show up in combat despite its weaknesses.
Chapters:
0:00 The ‘flying tank’
0:42 The Mi-24’s features
3:26 The Mi-24’s weaknesses
5:37 What’s next for Ukraine’s fleet?
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you guys couldn't afford a better model to use other than a matchbox?
will confess I too was a little thrown by the expert guy having like a 1:200 scale toy for a reference model. You'd imagine they have 1:20 models galore of all those soviet era types
This is the one that Ukraine still owns
He did not have an advance notice the reporter was coming.😂
No matter how obsolete the Mi-24 becomes, it never becomes obsolete.
4:12 ''the mi-24 doesn't have a radar like the AH-64 Apache'' and then journalists show an image of an Apache without its radar 😂
Even comparing these 2 helis is embarrassing. Mi24 should be compared to MH-60(if I remember name correctly)
Exactly, it's like comparing a bus and a car, saying the car is better because it's faster. The two vehicles just weren't conceived for the same use
@@innelator6941 I'd doubt even that. The Mi-24 is unique in this case. Too assault for a light-armed transport heli, too underpowered for a comparison with the DAP modificiation but can keep the troop carrying function in anyway, the DAP doesn't carry troops. Also, when the Hind is full-loaded, it doesn't take off exactly vertically. It takes off almost plane style, requiring a runway
They talk about Russia upgrading their mi24’s and then show footage of an mi28 👍
Comparing the Hind and the Apache is even dumber when you compare how they fight
The Apache stands off and attacks at a hover from afar shooting missiles, guided rockets, and it's gun
The Hind on the other hand keeps moving. It uses its speed to come in and get out of a target area fast in order to confuse and scare the enemy with semi-surprise attacks. They're both designed for 2 very different styles of combat. The Apache could very much mimic this attack profile but it wouldn't have as much speed or armor to get that personal and the Hind could hover from afar but it's weapons don't have the range nor does the Hind have as good maneuverability from a hover to just drop below cover or start evading whatever enemy fire does come it's way.
Had two of them come in on my team while performing an armored OP by Autobahn 44 back in the summer of '84, they are still a force to be respected.
What was it like being stationed in Germany in the 80s?
@@orion3253 Mostly? Drunk.
@@schlirf Nice.
0:51 that's the best model of a Mi-24 you came up with?! I hope that which ever staff kid who donated his toy helicopter for this segment got it back afterwards :D
I would have at least built a scale model. S m h....
It's like the reporter was like, "I'm not going to bring anything to this interview that won't fit in my pockets."
It’s probably the experts personal model, it’s a lot easier to explain to people with a simpler model
I imagine it was just sitt8ng on some office workers desk 😅
I can't tell the difference, there are jet engines, torpedoes, lazors and something something combobulator. I mean, close enough
The most hilarious part of this entire war is watching US media try to explain how soviet era equipment is better then the exact same soviet era equipment they are being shot at with
real
Yeah
That's not even sort of what's happening, but sure. I'm guessing you assume the f14s the Iranians have are exactly the same as the ones we continually upgraded for 20 plus years after theirs were delivered 😂
The most hilarious part is you not hearing that they said that russian mi 24 are more sophisticated and there are more of them.
Yeah, nah, not really mate....I think it was more about Ukrainians doing what they can with what they've got.
Mi24 is an amazing aircraft...Id love to have one
The Apache is a better heli along with the obvious fact these are outdated undertrained and not mass produced assault copters that can’t compete with Russia. Very glorified one sided view of this heli.
@@connerflowers7358 Comparing apples to oranges.
There is a privately owned ln the US
@@connerflowers7358Yeah because it’s same generation as the Cobra. Mi-28NM or Ka-52M are much better comparisons to an Apache.
@@connerflowers7358no it isnt
0:56 really guys? You just couldnt buy a model or do a print? You had him playing with a micro machine....great production value
Ahah, that's gold 😅
Who cares?
uuol strit žurnal
WSJ at its best of expertise... again.
Half-assed research and the only accurate info delivered by the specialist consultant are misunderstood. Good job.
Soviet technology really is something.😊😊
Absolutely!
They did a few things really well.
Most of it is trash.
@@jj4791 es justo al revés amigo... Hicieron muchas cosas muy bien y algunas son basura igual pasa con el armamento occidental, la mayoria esta muy bien pero hay algunas cosas que son basura.. no todo puede ser perfecto, y algun armamento de un bando tiene ventajas en algunos aspectos sobre el bando contrario y viceversa.
@@jj4791most of it *isnt* trash
Is it just me or do they call everything that can take more than 2 50 cal bullets a flying tank?
other vehicles have also been called "flying tanks" for a reason. The SU-25 can literally survive multiple hits from manpads and the KA-52 can survive AA guns and will still fly without its tail.
@blackmagnetica8714 I know those I just feel the phrase "flying tank" is a very widely used term like also the a10 il10 and a lot others
@@zerotheboxer tbf if an aircraft has enough armor you could reasonably call it a “flying tank”, and those aircraft have a lot of armor
The media has the same literary imagination as a spoon, not surprised.
No? They’ve been proven to be a flying tank, did you see the video of a KA-52 returning back to base without a tail? Did you see the video of a SU-25 tanking manpads and the plane still ends up delivering its support?
Rocket=unguided
Missile=guided
That journalist does not seem to know but the specialist obviously does.
rockets can be guided, just saying
@@timothy1949once a rocket is guided it becomes a missile. The only difference between rockets and missiles is does it have a guidance system or not
The rocket itself dosent have a guidence system but the pilot can have a sight that helps if firing somewhat accurate on longer distances or as a barrage.@@naizeylines
Yes, but that is only in English language usage. In some foreign languages there is no distinction as they may be missing either of the 2 words, or they have the same exact meaning. And what Battlefield 4 has thought me, is that Hydra 70 rocket can be turned into a precision guided munition (PGM, aka smart rockets), blurring the whole missile/rocket nomenclature, enough to be understanding of how others are using their language.
. No it can still be called a rocket..ie APKWS.
Good old Russian engineering
Soviet
@@FVBmoviesthe soviets were who? Dutch???
@@justicehenrydamian475 Cluelessness is not a virtue. Many great engineers lived in Soviet occupied territories.
@@justicehenrydamian475
@@FVBmovies which of them created this helicopter? Say their names.
Couldn't you find a bigger model for the expert? Poor guy.
Perhaps it's the expert's personal model he's had since childhood that he carries around in his pocket and sleeps with underneath his pillow at night.
Wow, this was some half-assed research. But then again, it's WSJ. So what was I expecting...
Mi 24 is my favorite. It can carry troops, while still being a dedicated assault chopper. And,...its a "bomber". It can drop bomds.😉😆👍
It's unique that's for sure
@@bulgaria_681you’re bulgarian? Cus i am
You don't know the definition of 'dedicated.' The Mi24 is COMPROMISED as an assault chopper because of its ability to carry troops.
A Huey with missiles and guns is lethal but the military decided to build a dedicated assault version without the troops section to make it a smaller target and thus the Cobra was born.
@@toolbaggers
Yea I know all of that. It's fine, Banjo
If they are managing to make Hydras work on an Mi-24 which wasn't meant for it props to them. If they can get APKWS working and functional on top of that MAJOR props to them.
It's not that hard when you have engineers that "know" what they're doing, quit the meat riding.
@@THESECONDCOMINGOFCAGGTRO Next time you retrofit a soviet helicopter to not only carry but also fire American weapons I’ll make sure to downplay your achievement.
Why are you arguing with the fact I told you to stop glazing Ukraine for doing something that any good engineer can do@@chonkymonkey6988
I'd doubt that. The pre-Mi-35 modifications sport very weak targetting systems. I mean, they can barrage MLRS-style, but precision strikes with APKWS? Very doubtfully. You should see the stock YakB-12.7 machine gun targetting station. It didn't go anything near digital until the Russian Mi-35/Mi-35M with the GSh-23 cannon. They got thermals after that
@@sergeyalaev9393 that's exactly what I'm saying, they likely as reporters don't know the differences as they also made many mistakes about weapon loadouts for the guns of the Mi-24 so I wouldn't doubt if they are wrong
It's a little odd that during the Soviet Era, Ukraine was a major arms industry for them but they can't figure out how to jerry rig or modernize weapons for themselves.
They are jerry rigging and modernizing weapons for themselves
@@smallpeople172 In garages.
@@attilamarics3374 I'm sure not always but a garage certainly helps lol
@@smallpeople172 Against a working military industry? Barely.
That’s exactly what they’re doing. You think 1990s British cruise missiles were meant to be fired from 1970s Soviet attack jets.
I love to watch news sites comment on these kinds of vehicles because they will 100% consult a expert and then continue to get everything wrong
Most badass helicopter ever made
This croc saved us in 2001 from Kosovo paramilitary
Imagine the soviets in the modern era, they’d build some insane stuff with today’s technology
They are still there, just changed hats
When the Soviet Union fell, Russia's military engineers didn't evaporate
@@RatherCrunchyMuffin same people but different environment, like the big corporation you were working at suddenly disappearing now you work for a smaller company
@@RatherCrunchyMuffin guess what - the majority of the soviet union engineers were not russian :) they didn't evaporate, but they also did not all magically start working for russia after the fall of the soviet union
Soviet innovation is an oxymoron
Honestly, one of the coolest and most rugged helicopters ever made imo. It would be cool to see one completely overhauled for the modern battlefield
Russian versions of the Mi-24 are more powerful and upgraded, why didn’t you show it or talk about it???
Love this🤙🏼 Innovative and strategic
It must hurt to have your own weapons used against yourself.
Let them have apache i want to see how they perform in a contested air space ; ka-52 had it shoot so far its the best in the field
Apache are too expensive even in India we have moved to indeginous attack heli prachand but our requirement is different also our heli fly in Himalayas where iaf apache couldn’t even reach
Apache is a sophisticated combat helicopter it's not a Toyota corolla. It requires a full team of technicians and other specialists for maintenance , repairs and support etc. Training a competent maintenance and suppoet crew takes years, also lets not forget pilot training. Not to mention the logistical support for spare parts and munitions among many other things. So yeah you can't just " hand" them a brand new piece of equipment and call it a day
@@liuyifei1989 And it blews my head off how Indonesain could equip both Russian and USA's helicopters. They got both Hind and Apache serving their Army Aviation.
@@pacedior yeah but I think there was a 4 year training and integration period tho.
@@liuyifei1989 Indeed. What makes me curious was how USA can approve a nation that not even their ally whose also equipping rival's armament to buy their sophisticated attack helicopter.
These videos are so cringe news outlets thinking they are weapon experts😂
Its a sad day when the WSJ cant afford a model bigger than a match box car. Who made this, are they serious with this content?
One thing is for sure,she may be old but shes a beauty.
I love American jets but hats off to Russia for making arguably the most iconic helicopter of all time (Apache ain’t iconic and Cobra is 2nd to hind 💯)
You're right.
Iconic, among basic aviation enthusiasts or the general public.
The Bell UH-1 Huey is possibly even more iconic, especially among a certain generation. It's even featured in Metallicas most famous song. Everybody on the planet knows that sound. Friend or foe.
But nothing on the planet compares to the Jolly Green Giant. Sikorsky MH-53. ~ The Pave Low has $h!t the Hind ain't never seen before. The missions it accomplished would have been suicide in a Hind. Or Huey.
Or maybe more iconic in look, and raw performance, is the tandem rotor Boeing CH-47 Chinook.
Or the crazy steath tech of a Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche. It was so far ahead of its time, it was not even needed. Think F-22, in a Helicopter. It's stealth research was utilized in the Blackhawk mods for the Bin Laden raid.
@@jj4791 Bell uh huey? Never heard of her
Where can I buy one?
where'd you get that display prop MI-24, a kinder egg? 😂
Fun Fact: the Mi-24 is ever so slightly asymmetrical and now you can’t unsee it
Just like almost every helicopter with a tail rotor?
0:55 dawg wft is that 😂😂😂
The first time I see American tell that the Soviet helicopter is good
He last minute borrowed his grandson's toy for a work meeting he completely forgot about
1. Since 2022 summer they used almost exclusively against infaintry and in toss maneures - like most russians helicopters too. But...
2. ...Russian have 8-10km range guided atgms, and Ukraine dont.
3. If USA wasn't so reluctant to sold or gave even some AH-6s in 2019/2020 under Ukrainian request, we would be in far better position
You lot will be asking for an carrier group next year
@@Sunshine-sl3kr well, if you didnt took from us not inly nukes, but even conventional missiles, we wouldnt ask about anything
@@Sunshine-sl3kr and i bet you wont asking US unconditional support for Israel or other agressive undemocratic force in Middle East
Goooo AFU s❣️ Ukraine's fortitude. They will fight this dam war with or without anybody else's help. I am feeling so ashamed of our American government backing out of the commitment we initially made to support Ukraine for as long as it takes. Intertwining our border security with our democracy security is a huge mistake. We CAN tackle both issues. Anyway, so proud of Ukraine! 🇺🇦💪
The a-10 of choppers?
Can anyone answer if this heli gets shot down is there an eject option or are they going down with it?
Most attack helicopters do not have an ejection seat, most have a hardened shell around the crew. If the helicopter is hit the pilot has to crash land the helicopter and the hardened shell will protect the crew from the impact (it really depends on the situation how survivable being shot down is). However there is an exeption with the russian Kamov Ka-50 & 52, these helicopters have explosive charges on the rotor blades and when the helicopter is hit and the pilot ejects, these charges will blow of the rotors. Then explosive lines on the canopy blow away the glass and a rocket with a rope attached to the seat is fired up into the sky, pulling the pilot out of the helicopter. The effectivenes of the ejection seat is questionable at best because the explosive charges have a high likelihood of failing, especially with subpar russian maintenance. The combat effectiveness of these ejection seats has been put under alot of scrutiny in the war in ukraine, where the russian pilots rarely eject and in the cases where they do the system has not been very succesfull.
“A Hind-D?! Colonel… what’s a Russian gunship doing here?”
Mi-24V replaced Mi-24D. D is from 1972, V started in 1975. Is that from a game or something ? The one on video is Mi-24P, made from 1981.
worlds only assault helicopter? i had my laugh for the day.
I miss good unbiased reporting
WSJ 😃
Thats my fave helicopter!!
Where did you say it is located? I need exact coordinates
Kyiv, go and try to take.
@@toolbaggers ожидайте
@@mEDIUMGap waiting 2 years now
Worlds only assault helicopter? Dang these millennial reporters/ writers are dopes.
Too big. In ukraine ka-52 has proven to be the best chopper. ka-52 has even more chances to survive hit by hand held anti-aircraft missile.
Does Ukraine have the Ka-52? That's a Russian attack helicopter
@@vervetech9395 who said it was ukrainian?
@@korencekis that why 60+ have been shot down?
@@jb76489 wishful thinking.
Game changer? 😂
Everything for them is game changer. I mean they need to lie to everybody to steal even more $$$
Powerful thing
There was SO much wrong in this video, seriously. Also, how come you just report on Ukraine using the Mi-24? 😆So many other militaries have the Mi-24 and far superior modernized variants.
ye russia has 10x as many hinds as ukraine and many of them are probaly more modernized than ukraine
Так WSJ деньги уплочены только чтоб напяливать корону на вооруженные силы украины, и не на какие другие армии. Только украинская армия "самая лучшая" - такой "заказ".
Или ты всерьёз считаешь WSJ хорошими экспертами по вооружениям? Та я тебя умоляю... 😂 За что заплатили, то они поют.
The most modern and capable mi24 variants are not operated by Russia or Ukraine, many former block countries have modernized mi24’s greatly in effort to westernize and improve the platform.
You're wrong about Russia, Russia has plenty. But foreign countries are adding western equipment onto the already modernized aircraft, take the Super Hind for example.@@Rutherfordium2023
"Protected by laminated and plexi glass?" Wth
‘Flying tank’ lol it’s a troop transport that can fight.
So thats the Savage
Flying Fighting Vehicle maybe?
Next, the Siege Chopper from Red Alert 2, maybe.
Not once mentioned it's key distinguishing feature! That it combines a transport with an attack helicopter. Compartment for a whole squad and still full attack capabilities... Perfect for air assaults.
They did mention it. Briefly within ten seconds of the video. I guess your memory is no good?
@@toolbaggers The title says it will explain why it is the world's only assault helicopter. But they never explain it. They just say it is one, don't say what it means or does
USA could give Ukraine even helicopters, not only F-16s and A-10s. But it's not given ATACMS missiles even 1/10 of what the US Army fired in 20 days Iraq in 2003 - 414 missiles.
Let have apache
No more
So u basically want to see A-10 and F16 being shot down?
We have given them ATACMS missiles, just not enough.
Apache was introduced in 1980s😂
Two words: Stinger Missiles... They worked in Afghanistan...
well its a good thing we aren't selling them to Russia
@@SizzleCorndogsad to say they have their own manpads equivalent to stingers
Afghanistan are mountainous, stingers operator well hidden and can reach it altitude quickly
Not so much in Ukraine
@@ralpjosephjavelosa7451 The Verba is, in fact, much better than Stingers.
@@boiboiboi1419 Actually, it's easy to hide for MANPAD teams in Ukrainian landscape because of the dense overgrowth. MANPADS have fairly long range. Pilots usually don't see they're being targeted by infantry from miles even when it's on a flat desert. MANPADS have been very effective in Ukraine, but Russian helicopers have better countermeasures than they did in Afganistan. They have systems that can blind seeker heads with laser beams, but these have blind spots.
That's very interesting how WSJ explains in details how Russian(soviet) helicopter works especially when Ukrainians are eagerly trying to get rid of everything what is related to the soviet era. This helicopter is a good example what USSR was making, Russian continue and make it better and what Ukraine can't and will not be able to make in foreseen future.
I mean Ukraine has the T-80 and T-64s. Unlike what people think, Ukraine had a very good part in USSR armor and aircraft production
@@warbrain1053it did. The manufacturing industry of Ukraine lied in the East, in regions such as Kharkiv and Donbas. Kharkiv is under fire, so production is limited, if not nonexistent. And as for Donbas? Well, the majority of them are Russian now.
@@lucks4fools978 industrial production just shifted westward especially as Ukrainian air defenses are expanded by Western systems protecting Ukrainian population centers.
@@warbrain1053 The fact is that after the USSR was destroyed (not collapse, the country was simply destroyed), many military production facilities remained in Ukraine, ranging from tanks to shells. The aviation industry was there too. But the new leadership of Ukraine decided to destroy it all, steal and sell it. As a result, the military-industrial complex was strangely at a low level, and if they could produce anything, it was simply to modernize Soviet-era production equipment. And then in a single quantity.
Дело в том, что после того как разрушили СССР (не распада, страну просто разрушили) на Украине осталось множество объектов военного производства, начиная от танков и заканчивая снарядами. Авиационная промышленность тоже была там. Но новое руководство Украины решило все это развалить, украсть и продать. В результате ВПК странно находился на низком уровне, и если и могли что-то производить, так это просто модернизировать производственное оборудование советских времен. И то в единичном количестве.
@@stutterfly4722There is no production in Ukraine. Just repair areas in random warehouses and garages. T-64’s are being refurbished in the Czech Republic and that’s basically it.
The beast
It's hilarious how this expert is explaining this helicopter using a hot wheels toy LOL
did you hear anything about KA-52 assault helicopter?
Looks really cool in Ukrainian colors
I remember this helicopter from Metal Gear Solid. Shot it down with a stinger.
It took me 3 shots in Peacewalker
and you wonder why are journalists not taken seriouslz lol
I would want to see alligator vs apache
Is this good for home defense?
"A Hind D! Colnoel, whats a Russian Gunship doing here?" - Solid Snake to Colnoel Campbell (MGS1)
Of course the variant featured in this vid, is the "Mi-24P Hind F" (if anyone cares to know). Other names for this flying tank: Stakan (Drinking Glass), Krokodil (Crocodile), & Satans Chariot (Mujahideen during the Soviet/Afghan War). It's a Beast alright, but a beast that's showing its age & being tamed by MANPADS (Stingers, Iglas & Javelins).
Amazing technology!! wait a minute ...
Is this like that promising young pilot with invincible plane that got shot down immediately
They could have found a better plastic model for the poor guy, jeeez!
Love how the guy could only manage to find a Kinder Surprise MI 24 to demonstrate on…
that's the saddest looking model helicopter I have ever seen
The US has the armed UH-60. It does the same thing with more advanced weapons.
That's like a feather weight fighter against a heavy weight.
brilliant russian helicopter
Namaste sir good evening 🌆
Clearly these guys haven’t played Battlefield 2042 and see how capable that helicopter is…😂🤪
Well, in bf2042 is super hind
Pretty sure they haven't played Midway 1942 either
The Hind can fire guided anti-tank, anti-bunker, and anti-ship missiles, whereby the weapons operator in the front guides the missile to the target with a joystick and television camera. There are youtube videos of Warsaw Pact military exercises, MiG-27-s lead the attack, dropping cluster bombs and mines over NATO infantry, which resulted in a horrible slaughter of infantry and immobilized NATO tanks which were suddenly surrounded by a mine field, then came the Hinds, picking up the tanks and isolated pockets of armor, and then the T-72-s rolled over what remained. These huge helicopters were darting from one target to the next like a giant grasshopper, or suddenly emerged from under the trees and put a guided missile into a "NATO-landig ship" in the waters.
Lol
We all saw how russia did simular excercices. Only to get slaughtered when tested
Outdated compared to Ka-52 firing Vikhr and Izdeliye-305
Mi24 variants have been able to fire vikhir for a long time, Just Ukraine has older variants like D and P
The expert showing us on a tiny children’s toy was quite ridiculous for a serious subject.
It's his personal toy that he sleeps with.
Where is the cope cage?
The world's only assault helicopter?
Love those chin guns...
Complimenti alla grande Federazione Russia
Complimenti al grande Esercito Rosso Z
Complimenti al grande Presidente Putin il numero uno su questa terra
Un Presidente con grande capacità e umanità
Con un grande popolo grande uno dei migliori popoli su questa terra
I seriously doubt that the crew are protected by plexiglass (acrylic). Most likely it's polycarbonate. Doubt the writers of this thing know the difference, tho.
In the long term Ukraine must come to living in peace with Russia. Attempting to kick Russia out of Crimea was and is a huge mistake.
Too late,it seems, like they will lose lots of territories, and will be extremely poor.
Future is dark
Thanks #WSJ Great work as always
the only assault helicopter? you don't count the Apache and Super Cobra?
Those are attack helos, they can't ferry soldiers into the field. Whereas the Mil 24 can both ferry soldiers into the field and then support them.
Ukraine got Hydra 70mm rockets because they could no longer get the Russian 80mm ones that are designed for the Hind.
is this real?
The end statement is critical to understanding this war.. UKRAINE wants out from under Russian meddling.. and there in you have all NATO members wanting to give AIDE but in limited technology.
The only thing worth understanding is that the United States overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine and turned it into a pro-American nazi hellhole
She sounds like Summer
“The only attack helicopter in the world” 🤔 that dosent sound right to me 😂
Sorry to burst your bubble, but as a helicopter pilot, and having seen them up close and personal, it's my personal opinion that it's a piece of sh... too heavy, unable to hover in order to shoot accurately, too vulnerable to enemy fire, all it does is firing unguided rockets from too far for any accuracy, that's basically just a flying noise machine. The cockpits were not built for actual human pilots, cramped, poor ergonomics for using instruments, systems, or guidance systems, and let's not talk about redundancy and any crew survivability once it gets hit.
It can only function in a one sided battlefield, with no opposition that can threaten it, otherwise it's a prime target for manpads or any AAA system, and it's inability to stay hidden while firing makes it completely ineffective. I'd rather go into combat in a Bell-407 with some rockets and guns than in this flying brick.
Like most soviet equipment, tanks and aircraft, they never failed to look very intimidating but in real life usually go down with their unlucky crews.
Serbia bought a squadron of Mi24s from Cyprus, and by doing this stopped these helicopters from ending up in Ukraine
If the Americans think the Soviet era choppers are obsolete why don't they supply Ukriane with American Vipers, Cobras, Black Hawks etc.
The mi-24 is not a attack helicopter it’s a helicopter gunship it was designed to be a moti-role helicopter not a dedicated attack helicopter the mi-24 is made to transport troops in a battlefield as well as engage other troops and armored vehicles that’s why it’s well armored and armed. It is not a dedicated attack helicopter.