{
  "id": "mi-28",
  "name": "Mi-28 (Havoc)",
  "aliases": [
    "Mil Mi-28"
  ],
  "domain": "air",
  "country": "RUS",
  "category": "Attack helicopter",
  "status": null,
  "fielded": 1998,
  "operators": [
    "DZA",
    "IRQ",
    "KEN",
    "RUS",
    "VEN"
  ],
  "prolif_count": 6,
  "summary": "The Mi-28 (Havoc) Russian Attack Helicopter is a twin-engine attack helicopter developed and manufactured by Russian Helicopters in the Russian Federation.",
  "specs": [
    {
      "k": "",
      "label": "Manufacturer",
      "section": "system",
      "v": "Mil",
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "crew",
      "v": 2,
      "src": [
        "weg-mi-28"
      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "",
      "label": "Hardpoints",
      "section": "armament",
      "v": "Two pylons under each stub wing to mount bombs, rockets, missiles, and gun pods.",
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "length_m",
      "v": 16.85,
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "width_m",
      "v": 4.81,
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium",
      "label": "Wingspan"
    },
    {
      "k": "height_m",
      "v": 3.82,
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "mass_kg",
      "v": 7890,
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium",
      "label": "Empty weight"
    },
    {
      "k": "engine_name",
      "v": "2 x Klimov TV3-117",
      "src": [
        "weg-mi-28"
      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "",
      "label": "Thrust / power",
      "section": "mobility",
      "v": "2,200 hp each",
      "src": [
        "weg-mi-28"
      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "",
      "label": "Endurance",
      "section": "mobility",
      "v": "2 hours",
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "",
      "label": "G limits",
      "section": "mobility",
      "v": "+3.5 G",
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "",
      "label": "Fire Control System Type",
      "section": "firecontrol",
      "v": "Integrated surveillance and fire control system",
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "",
      "label": "Sights",
      "section": "firecontrol",
      "v": "TV Channel, Thermal, EO",
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "",
      "label": "Navigation",
      "section": "firecontrol",
      "v": "Integrated Inertial Navigation",
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "",
      "label": "Crew Compartment Armor",
      "section": "protection",
      "v": "It withstands hits from 12.7 mm armor-piercing rounds and 20 mm HE-FRAG rounds. It is claimed that this helicopter can not be defeated by a single short-range anti-aircraft missile.",
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "",
      "label": "NBC Protection",
      "section": "protection",
      "v": "Yes",
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "",
      "label": "Counter Measures (Chaff/Flares)",
      "section": "protection",
      "v": "UV-26 flares",
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "",
      "label": "CVI: WEFT: wings",
      "section": "armament",
      "v": "Short-sloped wing weapon load mount points.",
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "",
      "label": "CVI: WEFT: engine",
      "section": "armament",
      "v": "Engine exhausts on both sides of fuselage. Dual air inlets.",
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "",
      "label": "CVI: WEFT: fuselage",
      "section": "armament",
      "v": "Mouse nose radar. High accuracy radar navigation system. Armored angular shaped tandem pilot canopies. Fixed-wheeled landing gears. Target sight system. Under mount 30mm chain gun.",
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "",
      "label": "CVI: WEFT: tail",
      "section": "armament",
      "v": "Features a stabilizer wing and fin. Tail rotor is on right side.",
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "armament",
      "v": "1 x Shipunov 2A42; M929; 2 x B-13L Rocket Pods; S-13; 2 x Shturm",
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    }
  ],
  "payloads": [
    {
      "name": "1 x Shipunov 2A42",
      "role": "Autocannon",
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium",
      "caps": {
        "Type": "Autocannon",
        "Caliber": "30 mm"
      },
      "range_km": 4
    },
    {
      "name": "M929",
      "role": "APFSDS-T",
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium",
      "caps": {
        "Type": "APFSDS-T",
        "Caliber": "30 mm"
      },
      "qty": "300 ea"
    },
    {
      "name": "2 x B-13L Rocket Pods",
      "role": "Rocket Pod",
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium",
      "caps": {
        "Type": "Rocket Pod"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "S-13",
      "role": "122mm caliber unguided rocket weapon",
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium",
      "caps": {
        "Type": "122mm caliber unguided rocket weapon",
        "Warhead weight": "21 kg"
      },
      "range_km": [
        1,
        3
      ],
      "qty": "5 Rockets per B-13L ea"
    },
    {
      "name": "2 x Shturm",
      "role": "ATGM",
      "src": [
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      ],
      "conf": "medium",
      "caps": {
        "Type": "ATGM",
        "Guidance": "Radio Guided",
        "Warhead": "HEAT",
        "Warhead weight": "5.3 kg",
        "Speed": "supersonic"
      },
      "qty": "8 ea"
    }
  ],
  "variants": [
    {
      "name": "Mi-28N/MMW Havoc",
      "text": "All weather day-night version adopted by Russian military in 2009. Equipped with a top-mounted millimeter wave radar, thermographic camera-TV, and a laser rangefinder.",
      "src": [
        "weg-mi-28"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Mi-28NE",
      "text": "Export version of the Mi-28N. In service with the Iraqi and Algerian Air Force. In August 2018, the Russian Helicopters unveiled an upgraded Mi-28NE variant, with improvements made in the main rotor system and engine unit and new on-board radio-electronic…",
      "src": [
        "weg-mi-28"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Mi-28NM",
      "text": "An upgraded version of the Mi-28N under development since 2009. The helicopter has redesigned nose hull due to removal of its nose antenna, new H025 radar station for all-round visibility, more powerful Klimov VK-2500 engines instead of the previous Klimov…",
      "src": [
        "weg-mi-28"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Mi-28D",
      "text": "Simplified daylight operation version. Similar to Mi-28N, but without top-mounted radar and FLIR",
      "src": [
        "weg-mi-28"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Mi-28NAe",
      "text": "Export version offered to North Korea",
      "src": [
        "weg-mi-28"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Mi-40",
      "text": "Proposed armed transport version. Never reached prototype stage.",
      "src": [
        "weg-mi-28"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Mi-28UB",
      "text": "Training-and-combat version, designed for training for Mi-28N. Has dual hydromechanical flight controls that can be operated from tandem cockpits, a more spacious lower cockpit to house a flight instructor, a wider pilot canopy, and new energy-absorbing crew…",
      "src": [
        "weg-mi-28"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Mi-40",
      "text": "The Mil Mi-40 was a projected utility version of the Mi-28, first initiated in 1983, announced in 1992 and shown at the Moscow Airshow in 1993.",
      "src": [
        "weg-mi-28"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "art": "helicopter",
  "image": {
    "file": "mi-28.jpg",
    "thumb": "mi-28-thumb.jpg",
    "credit": "Andrey Butko",
    "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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  },
  "verified": null,
  "changelog": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-10",
      "change": "Entry created from the Worldwide Equipment Guide (ODIN), bulk import"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-10",
      "change": "Added photo (CC BY-SA 4.0)"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://www.defensepedia.com/systems/mi-28.html",
  "sources": {
    "weg-mi-28": {
      "title": "Mi-28 (Havoc) Russian Attack Helicopter",
      "publisher": "U.S. Army TRADOC G-2 Worldwide Equipment Guide (ODIN)",
      "url": "https://odin.t2com.army.mil/WEG/Asset/Mi-28_Havoc_Russian_Attack_Helicopter",
      "published": "2026-03-20",
      "tier": 1,
      "checked": "2026-10-10"
    }
  }
}