Mil Mi-25

The Mil Mi-25 is the export version of the Mi-24D, the first dedicated gunship model of the Soviet Mi-24 Hind helicopter, which NATO calls the Hind-D. Aviastar's variant list says Mi-25 helicopters went to customers that included Afghanistan, Cuba and India. The Mi-24D that it is based on was an interim gunship version, designed from 1971 and put into production at the Arsenyev and Rostov plants in 1973. Its front fuselage was redesigned to hold separate armoured cockpits for the weapon operator and the pilot in tandem, the main cabin kept its troop transport capability, and the armament was a four-barrel 12.7 mm YakB machine gun in a nose turret plus the Falanga-P anti-tank missile system. Wikipedia's account of the Hind family records Mi-25 helicopters in combat in the Chadian-Libyan conflict, with the Iraqi Army in its war against Iran, in Nicaragua, and with Peru in the Cenepa conflict of 1995. The later Mil Mi-35 is the matching export version of the Mi-24V.