Planting Mines Directly from Helicopters

2014/05/29



Another Russian blogger has posted a few photos with captions on how the mines being planted with the help of… helicopters. So let’s see what he got here. According to his story this system is being used for planting land mines with the help of MI-8 Russian copters.







There are two types of such systems he reviewed. One is when the mines are being set on the outer “wings” of the copter.



Mines go in cartridges and placed on both sides of the helicopter, total of there can be 116 cartridges.



Those 116 cartridges can carry up to 7424 mines! Depending on the size of the mines being used.



Mines are being loaded…



It should take around forty minutes to load all the mines.




Mines are loaded and the helicopter is ready for a launch.



Going to the field needed to be mined.



Mines then being shot from the cartridges, outer cartridges first, then inner ones.




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