@ All Mi-24 HIND developers

Hello,

I have been gathering information on the Mi-24 (and other helicopter systems). I would like to pass on some of this material to those developing improved hinds for this sim. To start:

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. It improves playability to have a hind version that is vulnerable to small arms.

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 in the future.

Some references that may be of use

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.

Nice stuff , but needs to be moved to this topic:

http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin....t=57514

I have reposted it and this thread is ready for deletion.

Do you know of anyone currently developing this aircraft and how to contact them?

i kno the OWP ( our weapons project ) had Mi-8 and or mi-17 that could drop bombs and had door gunner and had fast roping, that would be a sweet addon to convert to arma.

also RHS ( red hammer studios ) have made their mi-24 to arma.

So how do I reach RHS?

Btw. OWP never fails to impress me...Do you know what the weapon calls are? I would like to remove some of the weapons from the resistance version in my missions.