Mil Mi-24V 'Hind-E'
The most-built Hind — the D-model airframe armed with radio-guided Shturm anti-tank missiles · In service 1976 · Built 1976–1986
The Mi-24V (izdeliye 242) shares the Mi-24D's tandem cockpits and chin gun; the big change is the missile. Instead of the older Falanga, it carries the 9M114 Shturm-V, a faster, supersonic radio-command missile guided through the Raduga-Sh system, on launchers at the wingtips. A new ASP-17V gunsight followed, and the weapon options grew to include 80 mm S-8 and heavy S-13 and S-24 rockets. The Soviet army accepted it on 29 March 1976 and production ran until 1986.
It became the most numerous Hind of all and was exported as the Mi-35; in Poland it is known as the Mi-24W. NATO users included the Czech Republic, whose Mi-24V/Mi-35s became regulars at NATO Tiger Meets in tiger-striped colours, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Bulgaria and North Macedonia. The Czech Air Force received Mi-35s with uprated TV3-117VMA engines, GPS and night-vision-compatible lighting in 2003–2005 and retired its Hinds in 2023 as Bell AH-1Z Vipers arrived.
The Mi-24V was also the basis for later developments: the Mi-24VP with a 23 mm cannon turret (only 25 built, production ending in 1989) and the deep Mi-24VM modernisation that became the Mi-35M.
