MI-35 reaches Pakistan

[BHarwana]

 

[BHarwana]

exclusive video.

helicopter is in Pakistani colors and in Pakistan

 

[YeBeWarned]

this video is already been posted

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Looks very minty and fresh still we need ample years to fill our gap in Helicopter Gunship segment

 

[Manidabest]

Russia begins delivery of advanced assault helicopters to Pakistan
By News Desk
Published: April 15, 2018
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PHOTO COURTESY: RUSSIAN HELICOPTERS

The Pakistan Army Aviation Corps has begun receiving the Mi-35 assault helicopters it ordered from Russia back in 2015, according to a report in The Diplomat.

Citing an earlier article that appeared on Quwa Defense News and Analysis Group, the Tokyo-based online international news magazine reported that a video has appeared to have surface on the social media which shows a Mi-35 helicopter draped in the colours of the Pakistan Armed Forces flying somewhere in the country.

The Diplomat also stated that an import-export log appeared to record the delivery of helicopter-related equipment, including ammunition, from Russian state-owned defense exporter Rosoboronexport to the Pakistan Army.

PHOTO COURTESY: QUWA

Last year, it was reported that Russia had handed over four Mi-35M helicopters to Pakistan Army Aviation Corps. However, the Japanese publication noted that the delivery of these choppers likely took place in Russia, and the actual transfer of gunships took place later.

“The contract was signed, we received all four cars [Mi-35Ms] and now we get new equipment,” Brigadier General Waheed Mumtaz of Pakistan’s Defense Export Promotion Organisation said in Moscow at the time.


Islamabad and Moscow concluded the $153 million helicopter deal during then-chief of army staff General (retd) Raheel Sharif’s visit to Russia in June 2016. A preliminary contract was signed at the Pakistan Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi in August 2015.

The Mi-35M attack helicopter, the export version of the Mi-24 gunship, was developed by the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant and has been produced in Russia since 2005. Next to serving in the Russian military, the aircraft has been exported to Azerbaijan, Brazil, Iraq, and Venezuela.

The company website of Russian Helicopters notes that the Mi-35 is particularly suited for mountainous terrain and can be deployed “round the clock” in adverse weather conditions. The website added that the helicopter offers “combat use of guided and unguided weapons in regular and challenging climate conditions” and is “operational for attack flights at altitudes of 10-25 m daytime and 50 m at night over land or water.”


The helicopter can be deployed for a host of different missions, including transporting up to eight paratroopers and carrying military supplies weighing up to 1,500 kg internally and 2,400 kg externally.

The Mi-35M is armed with a mounted twin-barrel GSh-23V 23 millimeter cannon and 80 and 120 millimeter rockets, as well as anti-tank guided missiles.

The Pakistan military has expressed an interested in procuring up to 20 new Mi-35M helicopters in years ahead. “Given the cost of building the necessary Mi-35M logistics and maintenance infrastructure, expanding the fleet beyond four aircraft would financially be a sound decision for the Pakistani military,” the author of the report in The Diplomatunderlined.

 

[Chimgathar]

Any idea about weapons package for this helicopter PA selected?

 

[PAR 5]

Good Heli though I wonder why Army cannot have it all in Black?

 

[Reichsmarschall]

Qasim Aviation Base, Rawalpindi.

its not Qasim base

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Good to see Russians deliver on Time building Lot of trust

 

[Dazzler]

bad ***...

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

That's Mi-35M which is totally different from Mi-35 which is export designation of Mi-24V. Mi-35M has thermal imager. Mi-35 does not.

 

[Path-Finder]

Just in time for afghani vill

 

[war&peace]

Pehle na baligh bachon ke saath ziadti aur majazi khudaon ko poojna band kar dein tu shayad ye sab karne ki fursat hogi.

That's true in fact sir. It will take. A good leader, good education, social equality will bring the real change... Evils do not die
We need to get rid of the idiot mullahs and politicians.

I hope those will not be parked at some unguarded tarmac.

It is army....not PAF or PNS...so these are in pretty safe hands.

 

[fitpOsitive]

That's true in fact sir. It will take. A good leader, good education, social equality will bring the real change... Evils do not die
We need to get rid of the idiot mullahs and politicians.

All those mullahs that you think are idiots, are in fact politicians.

 

[Liquidmetal]

Mi-35View attachment 466591

ours should be this dark grey too, same for jf-17