Aircraft Photo of Not known | Mil Mi-24A | Afghanistan - Air Force | AirHistory.net #165893
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:Not known
Aircraft Original Type:Mil Mi-24
Aircraft Generic Type:Mil Mi-24/25/35
Aircraft Version:Mil Mi-24A
C/n (msn):Not known
Operator Titles:Afghanistan - Air Force
Location
City / Area:Kabul / Museum OMAR [ Off-Airport ]Map
Country:Afghanistan
Collection:OMAR Mine Museum
 
Photo Date:January 2006 to March 2006
Photo by:Stephan de Bruijn
Photo ID: 165893
Photo Comment

A museum named OMAR Mine Museum (OMAR = Organization for Mine clearance and Afghan Rehabilitation), somewhere in Kabul city, showed me very unexpectedly a series of preserved aircraft. Several once Afghan Air Force aircraft and helicopters were kind of preserved, but the war in the country badly damaged the infrastructure of the museum as well as the aircraft. Luckily the whole was protected by a large wall, that prevented a possible even worse situation... current status of the museum is unknown. The serial of the Mi-24, from the first series built, was extremely hard to read, it was 344 or 334. Incredible that this ugly machine ever served as a gunship!

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