Foreign countries, including some Eastern European NATO members, currently provide maintenance services to Afghanistan, as they also use Soviet-made helicopters and are experienced in maintaining ...

It was once even big business in the Soviet Union, where the Aeroflot airline operated passenger helicopters in regular service for many decades. In the mid-1960s they even started work on ...

Russia and its former Soviet Union have never been afraid to supersize military hardware, such as the behemoth Mil V-12 helicopter, the largest helicopter in history. This large aircraft ...

The Cold War between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ... Americans first took note of the Hind during the Soviet-Afghanistan War, where it proved incredibly difficult ...