The Mi-24 Hind was built to attack and carry troops, but one painted in U.S. Coast Guard colors became a strange Cold War movie double

A Soviet Mi-24 Hind wore U.S. Coast Guard colors for a movie role, creating one of aviation's strangest disguises.

A Russian Mi-24 Hind was painted in US Coast Guard colors for a 1991 movie, and the “flying tank” ended up playing America’s rescue helicopter

A Soviet Mi-24 Hind was painted as a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter for a 1991 movie. Discover the story behind the strange ...
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“Satan’s Chariot”: How The Russian Mi-24 Hind Helicopter Terrorized Afghanistan

The Soviet Mi-24 was a testament to the Soviet preference for brute force and power over finesse or whiz-bang technological wizardry. These flying beasts were killers. At the height of the Cold War, ...