Aircraft
Iraq Using Mil Mi-28 Attack Helicopters Against Daesh
The country is the first export customer; deliveries have included radar-equipped night-fighting version.
A radar-equipped Mil Mi-28NME on display at the MAKS airshow in Moscow last year. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)
A radar-equipped Mil Mi-28NME on display at the MAKS airshow in Moscow last year. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)

The Iraq defense ministry reported that Mil-28N attack helicopters received recently from Russia played an important part in the recent recapture of Fallujah and Ramadi from Islamic State or Daesh. Iraq is the first export customer for the Mi-28NE, having bought 15 of them as part of a package worth more than $1billion that was agreed in 2012, and that also included 28 Mi-35 attack helicopters.


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