Military Watch Magazine

Indonesian Army Receives New Russian Mi-35M Attack Helicopters

The Indonesian Army has received new Russian Mi-35M helicopter gunships, with images circulated on social media on September 3 providing a first look at the new aircraft. The Army currently operates the Mi-35P, an older variant of the aircraft, which has long formed the core of its combat aviation capabilities. The Mi-35M is one of the most extensively modernised derivatives of the Mi-24 family. Developed by Russia’s Rostvertol, it combines the basic heavily armoured assault-transport and attack-helicopter configuration of the Mi-24 with substantial changes to its propulsion, avionics, flight systems and weapons configuration.