«82 Red», a Mil’ Mi-8T in unarmed utility transport configuration. Note the Russian Navy’s St. Andrew’s flag. 830th Helicopter Regiment, Severomorsk, 2004
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«49 Red», a Mil’ Mi-8T transport helicopter. The type is operated by the 830th Helicopter Regiment since 1970
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Mil’ Mi-8T CCCP-22162 used by GocNII GA
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Mil’ Mi-8RTR «75» COMINT helicopter of the regiment based at Kalinovskaya; Groznyy-Khankala AB in the autumn of 2001. The helicopter arrived from Abkhazia where it was tasked with peacekeeping operations; note the Cyrillic «MS» badge (mirotvorcheckiye seely — peace forces)
Mil’ Mi-8MTV-3 «61» based at Groznyy-Severnyy airport, April 2000. Russian flags — colloquially referred to as «besik» (actually a contraction of belo-sine-krasnyy, white/blue/red) — used to be painted on the external flight deck armour shields; only red paint could be found when an attempt was made to restore them
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Mil’ Mi-8MT «55» based at Boodyonnovsk in the spring of 2001. The helicopter wore standard but extremely faded camouflage; Russian flags were worn on both flight deck armour shields, with «White Eagle» artwork on the port side only
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