Mil 24, NATO reporting name Hind.
Hind is Middle English for rear end (hind end, hind leg), originating with Old English/Old German. Hind is also the name for female Red Deer who are three years of age or older. Hind is also the name for a type of speckled serranid fish in the Western Atlantic Ocean. Hind is also a word for a peasant/lower class worker.
The crews/countries who operate the Mil 24 have given it their own nicknames, such as Flying Tank, Drinking Glass and Satan’s Chariot.
Operation Desert Shield/Storm can be considered the last battle of the undeclared/unofficial Cold War.
United States Department of Defense photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner, March 1991.
March 1991, photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner.
U.S. DoD photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner, March 1991.
March 1991, photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner.
March 1991, photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner.
March 1991, photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner.
General Norman Schwarzkopf uses his foot to check-out the pieces & parts of an abandoned Hind. U.S. DoD photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner, March 1991.
The captured Hinds were brought to Rafha Domestic Airport in Saudi Arabia. The airport is near the border with Iraq. Photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner, March 1991.
A different Iraqi Hind, photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner, March 1991.
Retractable nose gear pointing to heaven, all that is left of an Iraqi Hind, March 1991, photo by Sergeant Kimberly Yearyearn.
Desert Storm:
DoD photo.
Afghanistan 2020: 
MAINTAINING SATAN’S CHARIOT
Vehicle I-D 2020: 
Cold War Vehicle I-D: 
TU-95 ‘BEAR’
