Avimimus Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Hello, Here are some notes I collected on modeling the Hind. I am posting them here simply as LoBS may have attracted a few rotarheads and other who may find this interesesting: While hinds were largely immune to small arms and flown fearlessly they were not entirely invulnerable. Many military doctrines (eg. West German) state that any weapon is to be used against slow, low flying aircraft. Hinds in Afganistan often carried heavy machine guns and grenades for self defense. They also carried extra rockets so that the crew could partially reload their pods in the field. Most Russian rocket pods have very high dispersion. This is often overlooked but very important for accurate modeling. It would be nice to see hinds with doorgunners, 10 x 100kg bomb payloads, rocket dispersion, and a few other weapons as the standard for hind modeling. Updated weapons information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi-24 A discussion on rocket dispersion: http://www.simhq.com/forum....2250210 Pictures of the door gunner positions: http://www.zajc.pl/afganistan.html Video footage of the gunner positions in use: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v....search= More rare footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v....search= Mi-35/24PN footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v....search= Some reading: http://www.faqs.org/docs/air/avhind1.html An excellent set of articles (good weapon info can be found in other parts of this site): http://www.airwar.ru/ah.html Some drawings: http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw_c.html P.S. the Hind naturally looses some lift due to the stub wings when it is hovering. It peaks in forward flight where the wing anhedral easily pulls the helicopter into turns. There is a risk of the rotor striking the tail during abrupt maneuvers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nscode Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Half of the links don't work :( Never forget that World War III was not Cold for most of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulrich Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Video footage of the gunner positions in use: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v....search= More rare footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v....search= Mi-35/24PN footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v....search= "The url contained a malformed video id." Unable to watch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xealot Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 He screwed up the linking, they literally link to "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v....search= " The community newbie http://winsbydefault.com/pics/dctf1ibxh7.gif Replace this image! It's too big! © Administration (max size: 150pix height, 50kb) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avimimus Posted August 20, 2007 Author Share Posted August 20, 2007 The links are all corrected, S! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleEye Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Thanks Avimimus! You modeling the hind in 3D? For which purpose? LOMAC, EECH? Deutsche DCS-Flughandbücher SYSSpecs: i7-4790K @4GHz|GA-Z97X-SLI|16GB RAM|ASUS GTX1070|Win10 64bit|TrackIR5|TM Warthog/Saitek Pro Pedals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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