Mi-24 Hind Helicopter Question


I thought the Mi-24 Hind have a double bubble canopy for its cockpits? Was the Hind they used in this movie a fake? I also noticed movies during this time had weird looking Hinds, such as Rambo 3, Missing in Action 3, Bulletproof and Red Scorpion.

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It's not actually a Russian helicopter, it's a French chopper called a Puma, with fake bolted-on wings. They used the same design for Rambo III and Red Dawn. Check these sites out: http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/rambo3.html and (scroll down) http://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=Rambo:_First_Blood_Part_II.

As a side note, the smaller Russian helicopters seen in Rambo III are also fictional as well, called the Gazelle (also French), the same make as the one in Blue Thunder. It wasn't possible in the 80s to get Russian aircraft in movies, so it all had to be done with western aircraft dressed up. They had to do the same in Firefox and Top Gun.

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Also, what about the door gunner using a US made M60E3 machine gun?

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Also, what about the door gunner using a US made M60E3 machine gun?


Not only that but the Communists were using a UH-1 Huey. Although I wouldn't be surprised if they were using abandoned US military equipments after the war.

About the Mi-24. I noticed Air Force One also featured a Hind when the radical ultranationalist was released from prison. It seemed like a real version. Can anyone confirmed?

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As others have said, it was a mock-up, but the Hind-A was configured similar to this movie cockpit wise.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ex_Algerian_AF_(SU97)_Mil_Mi_24_Hind_A_(6895980401).jpg

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but the Hind-A was configured similar to this movie cockpit wise


Yeah, that was similar to the one in Red Dawn which molded a fake replica of the cockpit from a Hind-A onto a Puma:

http://www.imfdb.org/images/d/dd/RedDawnFakeHind05a.jpg

http://www.imfdb.org/images/3/3b/RedDawnFakeHind03a.jpg

http://www.imfdb.org/images/7/73/RedDawnFakeHindUndera.jpg

For Rambo II & III, they removed the fake cockpit from the puma because it limited pilot vision and made it difficult to fly, hence ended up with this:

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/rambo/images/9/94/392_3.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130324213405

http://www.rotaryaction.com/images/rambo3d.jpg

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Yeah, well, at least they went to some effort, rather than just painting them black and calling them a non-existent (and impossible to exist) Soviet numbering like 'MiG-28' ;)

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Haha, true.

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