Ukrainian military tested "Afghan" Mi-17 helicopters

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are armed with equipment that was originally intended for the Afghan army, including aviation. Recently, the Ukrainian military tested "Afghan" Mi-17 helicopters.

This is reported by a number of Telegram channels.

The vehicles were recently involved in live fire exercises.

It is not known whether the Ukrainian Armed Forces used this aircraft during the hostilities. Information is received only from time to time about various training events. So, in January, it was reported that Ukrainian units were practicing landing from helicopters. Three "Afghan" Mi-17s were involved in these exercises.

Mi-17 multipurpose helicopters are produced in Russia. This is the export version of the Mi-8. The helicopters were purchased in the Russian Federation by American buyers for the Afghan Air Force. But they did not have time to send them to this country, since a change of power took place there, and the United States Armed Forces quickly left this region. The cars had to be sent to the "aircraft graveyard" at the Davis Mountain Air Force Base in Arizona.

A little over a year ago, they were included in another package of US military aid for Ukraine. In total, it included 11 Russian helicopters.

Last summer, the Americans remembered another "orphaned" equipment from Afghanistan, some of which could be transferred to Ukraine. We are talking about planes and helicopters of the Afghan Air Force, on which some local pilots, fleeing the Taliban (an extremist organization banned in the Russian Federation), flew to Uzbekistan.

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[nPuBaTuP]

flew to Uzbekistan.

And what? Is Uzbekistan ready to supply them with 404?

[Aviator_]

It seems that the Uzbeks then gave American property to the Americans. Well, it’s not for the Taliban to return cars.

[Mavrikiy]

Quote: nPuBaTuP

And what? Is Uzbekistan ready to supply them with 404?

Read attentively.

The cars had to be sent to the "aircraft graveyard" at the Davis Mountain Air Force Base in Arizona.

[Svetlana]

No, before you twist your fingers (emoji) and teach others, be careful yourself and reread the last paragraph.

[Alister kroulegg]

You are confusing two deliveries. One was from Uzbekistan, the second from Arizona. But it's not your fault, the text is written clumsily

[Parvis rasulov]

There were no deliveries from Uzbekistan to Ukraine, but half of what flew from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, part of the equipment was returned to the United States at the same time, the rest of the helicopters and aircraft were included in their armed forces. Otherwise, all Central Asian countries have a neutral position with respect to Ukraine, and not one of the three countries listed above will participate in the supply of weapons and military equipment, not indirectly. In Tajikistan, as in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, laws were adopted prohibiting the service of its citizens in foreign armies and other armed formations, and persons who participated in the war in the Donbass and Ukraine were arrested upon arrival in their countries and imprisoned for considerable periods. There is one clause in the Tajik law that lifts the ban on service in the Russian army.

[tralflot1832]

I don’t know where Ukraine got a “zhofto-plakit” hawk in one copy, but it doesn’t appear on LBS - it only participates in advertising filming.

[Nexcom]

so maybe they begged for filming - hang noodles like everything is modern and foreign there.

[lukash66]

Quote: tralflot1832

I don’t know where Ukraine got a “zhofto-plakit” hawk in one copy, but it doesn’t appear on LBS - it only participates in advertising filming.

The hawk has long been shone in one copy, it seems like it was even bought by the outskirts GUR for their MTRs, but in the civilian version it was decommissioned.

[Aviator_]

but in the civilian version and decommissioned

Not to be afraid of? I remember that the ophthalmologist Svyatoslav Fedorov also bought a helicopter decommissioned after the Yugoslav war, so he crashed on it.

[bubalik]

I don't know where Ukraine comes from

,,, its origin: the American civilian company Ace Aeronautics. . . is a UH-60A helicopter built in 1980 and owned by the US Army Air Corps, serial number 70-197 and serial number 80-23439. It was taken over by Ace Aeronautics in 2017. This company is engaged in the modernization of aircraft for private and public customers. Prior to being sold to Ukraine, the helicopter had US civil registration number N60FW.

[bubalik]

The cockpit door on the starboard side bears his call sign "Maestro" and the VL-60 Ace Deck logo that Ace Aeronautics gave during the modernization of this UH-60A.

[dmi.pris1]

Where? Yes, everything is from there, from outsiders. They received it, it seems, at the end of last year. The Britons handed over several "Sea Kings"

[Boniface]

Is it possible that the location of the helicopters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot be "calculated" from space, not destroyed?

[Serafim]

Our lard and us the same for wort? This, dear comrades, is necessary for Lenin
and Stalin to resurrect and send to Finland to "start all over again."

[Vic Vic]

If Lenin had stayed in Finland, and even better muddied something in Switzerland, and not with us, then Russia would have been, by God, only better.
No need to "start over". I hope that the limit of revolutions in Russia has been exhausted.

[igorbrsv]

You may or may not need to start over. But Lenin and Stalin are missing. The USSR was a great time, but not for crooks and parasites

[Vic Vic]

Yes, it was a great time in the USSR, but despite this, staging a coup with a bloody Civil War and millions of innocent victims and victims is a fatal mistake for the country. Even having settled on the results of the February Revolution, the country would have retained its intellectual and, in general, human potential and would not have had to start from scratch out of hunger, devastation, and in the future, all the achievements of the new state, most likely, would not have been reset to zero, window dressing and demagoguery.

[vovochkarzhevsky]

Even, dwelling on the results of the February Revolution, the country would have kept

This is how naive you have to be to believe in such an option. Thanks to the Bolsheviks, they intercepted the steering wheel from the liberals in time. And unfortunately they missed it in 1991, too many scum in the CPSU crawled through, the liberals again.

[Vic Vic]

"Happiness" is not built through monstrous blood, especially of its own citizens

[vovochkarzhevsky]

"Happiness" is not built through monstrous blood, especially of its own citizens

And who launched the civil war, if not the weak-willed Nikolashka, who, for some unknown reason, climbed into the WWI, and then the liberals, striving for power, led by Kerensky.
And if the Bolsheviks had not come to power, the scenario would have been even worse.

[Igool]

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Quote from vicvic

coup with a bloody civil war and millions of innocent victims and victims

And you probably have examples of changing the system at the beginning of the XNUMXth century in a different way, without bloodshed? And this is in a country where widespread illiteracy reigned? I hope you have not forgotten that the state of workers and peasants was created from the capitalist state? And the capitalists, in your opinion, should have transferred the means of production into the hands of these workers and peasants, or as they called them, cattle? Are you absolutely sure that such a transition is possible peacefully? If so, then you are overly naive.

[Vic Vic]

"Revolutions devour their children."

[cat Rusich]

Quote from vicvic

If Lenin had stayed in Finland, and even better muddied something in Switzerland, and not with us, then Russia would have been, by God, only better ..

History lesson...
February Revolution 1917 - happened in February, early March 1917
During the February Revolution of 1917, the Sovereign-Emperor Nicholas 2 was overthrown (although a "bad tsar" - but legally crowned king ...) and was Empire destroyed...
V. I. Lenin arrived in a "sealed wagon" on Finland Station Petrograd April 3 (16), 1917 - that is, after the February Revolution of 1917.
But RSDLP (b) which was headed by Lenin, more came to Russia in a "sealed wagon" 10 revolutionary parties, basically nationalistic direction (Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians...) including Jewish Social Democratic Labor Party, Zionist Socialist Workers' Party, General Jewish Workers Union in Lithuania, Poland, Russia, anarcho-communists ...
To overthrow the Provisional Government would be found by someone, not in October 1917, so in January 1918 (a purely conditional comparison ...)

[Mikhail Maslov]

But this is dangerous. This type of helicopter can easily be used as an opportunity to penetrate the territory of the Russian Federation. Both for delivering strikes and for landing DRGs.

[nordscout]

It is a pity that domestic equipment will go into "batch" with predictable consequences .... But this, after all, is not the F-16. If the F-16 enters the Ukrainian theater of operations, our air defense and aerospace forces will be very "sad". Then, already, 2-4 sorties / days will probably be very difficult to do .... Perhaps I am mistaken about the sorties of our falcons.

[Yeti suvorov]

Cars had to be sent to the “aircraft graveyard”

usually from the theater of operations or at the end of the service they are sent to the cemetery
but here it's the other way around
what is happening now ... theater of the absurd