Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down Russian Mi-35M helicopter (photo) (updated)

The Ukrainian defenders successfully eliminated another target - the Russian Mi-35M helicopter.

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According to the Department of Strategic Communications of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, military personnel shot down a Mi-35M with a swashplate, like the attack Mi-28.

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Swashplate - mechanism for controlmain rotor, which provides control of the vertical movement of the helicopter, as well as its inclination in roll and pitch. To do this, the machine periodically changes the installation angle of each propeller blade, depending on where the blade is at a certain point in time during the rotation of the propeller as a whole.

Updated.Initially it was reported that the Mi-35MS was shot down.However, the American columnist for the Defense Blog portal Dylan Malyasov reports that an error occurred: the Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down a regular Mi-35M. This is a Russian transport and combat helicopter for round-the-clock use, designed for the destruction of armored weapons and equipment, landing and fire support of ground forces, evacuation of the wounded, as well as for transporting cargo in the cabin or on an external sling.