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One of the best modern attack helicopters is coming to War Thunder: the famous Russian Mi-28N Havoc!
Mi-28N, attack helicopter, USSR/Russia, VII rank.
Pros
- Good crew protection
- Perfect versatility
- Thermal imaging
Cons
- Mediocre maneuverability
As demonstrated in the Soviet-Afghan war and other scenarios where helicopters were used by other countries, the Soviet Army needed a pure attack helicopter capable of, among other things, efficiently destroying enemy armoured vehicles. In 1976, after the Soviet Council of Ministers announced a competition to develop a new rotary-wing attacker, two distinguished design bureaus threw their hats into the ring: Kamov and Mil. Kamov engineers ended up being the first to present a new kind of Russian helicopter for testing: the well-known Ka-50 “Black Shark” was put into service in 1993.
Mil’s team of engineers and designers focused on perfecting an upgraded version of their baby, the Mi-28A, for year-round day and night use in any weather conditions. The project was called Mi-28N (“product 294”), and the “Night Hunter” ended up becoming the Russian Army’s primary attack helicopter.
The Mi-28N is currently mass-produced for the Russian Army, and the helicopter is also exported to Iraq and Algeria. The vehicle received its baptism of fire as a part of the Russian Aerospace Forces in Syria, where the Mi-28N participated in the liberation of Fallujah by the Iraqi Army, the battle of Ramadi, and other operations.
The Mi-28N Havoc is the new top-ranking vehicle in the Soviet/Russian helicopter research branch. It’s a modern attack helicopter with all the latest military technologies for its class.
In combat, this helicopter can vie with live enemy forces, lightly armoured vehicles, tanks, and even aircraft, and it’s also capable of defending itself against AA systems and artillery. All of this can be found in the celebrated Havoc. It has a 30mm 2A42 cannon installed on a rotating turret on the nose of the helicopter (the same one as on the BMP-2), and its AP feed can easily take down any AA vehicle or hit the side or top of a tank. Like any other modern attack helicopter, the Mi-28N features a massive variety of suspended armament and combinations thereof.
This includes gun pods with 23mm cannons and rocket launchers, but the coolest thing of all is that it has guided missiles! Once you research the level 1 modification, the 9M120 “Ataka” is unlocked: the hefty, heavy-hitting ATGMs that should already be familiar from the Mi-35. The Mi-28N can carry up to 16 of these missiles. For airborne targets you can install up to eight 9M39 “Igla” missiles. These are excellent modern air-to-air missiles with infrared guided warheads.
Incidentally, you can take weapons for every potential situation into battle with you at the same time: 2x20 rocket launchers, eight ATGMs, and 4 “Igla” missiles. That should be enough for everyone! Needless to say, the Havoc also has heat traps and thermal imaging – these technologies are mandatory for top-ranking helicopters in our game.
The Mi-28N has speed characteristics that are similar to those of the Mi-35, but it’s significantly more dynamic and controls better. The Mi-28N is famous for still having the best passive defence of any modern attack helicopter – its entire cabin is protected by armour (including transparent armour). The Hunter’s entire internal compartment is essentially a modular armoured pod. These defences won’t protect it from a direct hit by a missile with a guided warhead or a volley of AA armor-piercing shells, but they do provide reliable protection against bullets, shrapnel, and small-calibre high-explosive rounds.
All in all, the Mi-28N is, without a doubt, one of the best helicopters in the game. It features excellent flight characteristics, powerful universal armament, and lots of technological “extras” typical of top-ranking helicopters, all in the Havoc coming in update 1.93! We can’t wait!
The War Thunder Team
Comments (282)
No italy helocpters yet ? oh boy .
I bet we will see Agusta this patch!
waiting for Apache and M1A1HA to be added :)
T 90 soon
I bloody hope so. But then everyone will cry. Specially the freeboos and germans, even though they have the f4. Ah1z. Euro and 2a5. Us should at least get the ha though.
Okay, here it goes. I understand that there are loads of planned interesting vehicles. I'm more interested in why adding new vehicles/maps/game mechanics is the #1 priority? Shouldn't game balance/bug fixes (those are nearly on point, but ghost shot is still a thing)/other improvements be more important? It feels like the game is changing and evolving so fast, that there are amounts of issues overlooked or even ignored. Like ww2/post war tanks that are facing way more modern vehicles? And etc...
Didn't you see the rank change table of exsiting vehicles?
So far we see 3 russian vehicles...Come on gaijin, british have been getting fucked in the ass for years now. Any time we get anything decent british it just gets nerfed to shit and made useless. Were is the buckaneer, the harrier, the english electric lighting, the jagaur, oh and lets not forget the AH scouts loadouts??? Why is a BR 9.0 heli with no loadouts? its a complete joke... you boys put 0 effort into the wasp and scout. FIX THAT SHIT! Stop hating on british, represent them better...
Russians are one of the worst factions at top tier when it comes to tanks. Challengers are clearly better than Russian tanks so I wouldn't moan so much about it. Its quite clear more vehicles are coming for other nations too. The truth is USSR could get T90A right now and even then it wouldn't be the best faction at top tier because Russian tanks are so easy to one shot.
Dex4Sure, ????? Your joking right. Yes they are easy to kill when theyre not paying attention. Russians working together are unbeatable. Russia is far from the worst faction, far from it.
Update 1.93 The Rising Russian Bias. AND I LOVE IT TNX DEVS!
People need to stop acting like playing a certain country ingame is all they can play. It's as if believe switch to a different country to play is a traitorous act against their people. If yall wanna play a certain thing but that country doesn't have it, switch to a different country, its that simple. If you don't have any vehicles for any other country well tough luck chief, it's not the devs or anyone else fault for your refusing to be more open and play other nations.
cough cough Britain
When it takes about a year of regular grinding (non premium) to reach top tier for a nation, do you really blame people for having only 1 or 2 nations they focus on?
I think this patch is going to be called ,,Russian Bias'', because I see nearly only russian vehicles being added.
More WWII stuff! Fill in the gaps of france and italy!
Kek. Russia gets two of the most powerful Russian attack helicopters this update. What does America get? Oh, you thought the Apache? Wong! The PROTOTYPE Apache! Thats considerably worse then the production model.
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