Hussar

Mi-24 "Hind"! Hind allows for additional dimension to helicopter missions. Not only you can fly and blow stuff up with rocket pods, bombs, air fuel bombs etc but you can also deliver and extract troops, some supplies and evacuate wounded - all by the same helicopter. Just remember that the one of the main reasons "Apache" came to be was to provide counter measure to "Hind". Mi-24 is ultra flexible airborne weapon platform capable of a multitude of heliborne missions. Interesting fact: in Iraq, Polish "Hinds" operated side by side with "Apaches" (and other helis) in 2007 and were based at Camp Echo... ;-)

if you had one come after you and fire at you or your people, you would know that IT IS a total nightmare... AND you would count yourself VERY lucky if you lived to talk about it... If you had one on your side though, you would be very glad... that it is on your side...

Hello and thank you guys for this info so far. I am hoping that someone from the development team might shine some light on this. I think it would be REAL SAD if AH-64A "Apache" was done (again as per previous heli sims done by other developers) BUT NOT Mi-24 "Hind". Frankly, and this is personal choice for me, I am only going to buy this IF there is Mi-24 Hind "decently flyable by humans" in the game with pilot, WSO and - door gunner(s) if possible (but pilot and WSO for sure), at some stage. When I see Mi-24 developed and incorporated as a flyable model, I will buy this title. I have (and I guess many others as well) have waited for so long for a flyable simulation of Mi-24 that for it not to be developed for this title would be totally disappointing for me. Hind allows for additional dimension to helicopter missions. Not only you can fly and blow stuff up with rocket pods, air fuel bombs etc but you can also deliver and extract troops, some supplies and evacuate wounded all by the same helicopter. I sincerely hope that together with Apache, Hind will be also developed. Anyway, here is hoping that the developers are listening. Thank you all for info. I will wait and see if any other info will (perhaps) arrive from the developers. Cheers.

Hi all, my apology if this has been asked already before. I tried to search for this in the existing topics but had no luck. Could someone please confirm if Mi-24 Hind will be also flyable or will it be purely AI operated heli? Last Hind simulation I flew was in (excellent) "Hind" sim by Digital Integration in the late 90s and since then, there were other helicopter simulations but none so far had Mi-24 Hind that was properly simulated and flyable by "humans" ;-). I think it is time for this great helicopter to make a return and DCS I think is just the place where this should happen. Perhaps as a later add on flyable helicopter if not released first up? I understand it is not an easy task to model all helicopters BUT Mi-24 is a legendary machine deserving a place in the release as a flyable simulation together with Ka-50 helicopter. Lastly, will there be national skins for helicopters to choose from for example say Polish, Czech etc for Mi-24 if it gets released? Appreciate a reply. Thank you and sorry again if this has been already answered somewhere else. I am looking forward to DCS "Black Shark" :-)