It's very heartening to see that this super old Hind has recently acquired a fresh coat of paint. It is very easy to criticise museums when some of their exhibits are looking somewhat shabby but as money and manpower are usually in extremely short supply they do the best that they can.

One of a pair of D-models, the only I ever saw during my frequent forays into former East Germany.

On the dissolution of Cezechoslovakia this aircraft went to Slovakia

This was a proposal for a police helicopter equipped with LLTV, sirens and a search light. The c/n could be wrong as it does not fit in with other c/ns.

Equiped with double-barrel 30 mm cannon.

On the day of the final withdrawal of the Werneuchen regiment, a long flight to the rodina is in store for the crew of this lateral camera armed Hind.

The Mi-35 is the export version of the Mi-24V, Hind-E. This example put on a fine display at NATO Days 2019.

The OMAR Mine Museum (OMAR = Organization for Mine clearance and Afghan Rehabilitation) in Kabul city unexpectedly showed me a number of preserved aircraft. Several former Afghan Air Force aircraft and helicopters were on display, but the war badly damaged most aircraft as well as the infrastructure of the museum. Luckily a large wall around the museum saved the inventory from further damage. This Mi-24 gunship is the former Afghan AF 334, c/n unknown. It is fitted with a door from Mi-35 serial 64, c/n 808764, which was located at the Pol-e-Charki scrapyard in Kabul.

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!