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[Pibwl]

Hungary OOB 38

Bought 20 helicopters H145M - deliveries starting from 11/19 https://www.airforce-technology.com/...pters-hungary/

From 11/20 several were upgraded to H145M HForce armed variant, apparently typically with one 12-tube rocket launcher (68 mm or 70 mm, I don't know which they chose) and 20 mm gun pod (photo: https://milmag.pl/uzbrojone-h145m-na-wegrzech/). According to https://www.janes.com/defence-news/n...an-h145m-helos they were going to be operational only in 7/21.

[Pibwl]

Poland OOB02

I was quite surprised to read in Polish Nowa Technika Wojskowa 6/21, that Mi-2URP (unit 117) and URP-G (unit 740), with Malutka missiles, still serve in Polish Army (of course, rather for combat training purpose - however, they are currently the only Polish helicopters with anti-tank - well, maybe "anti-AFV" missiles rather... Polish Mi-24 are still lacking ATGMs). Predictably, they will serve until 2025 at least... Part have been modified to use night vision goggles, but I don't know if it enhances vision.

On the other hand, other armed variants of Mi-2: URN/URNG (#115/741) with rockets and US with machine guns (#742) most probably ceased to be used well before 2015 - I would say 2005 at best.

967 Mi-2 Kania - PZL Kania was a Polish variant of Mi-2 with western engines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_Kania , but unfortunately only 19 were made and were not used by Polish Army.

963 SW-3W Huzar - unfortunately, pure fiction. There were only technology demonstrators with South African missiles (1993), then HOT-3 (1999) and Spike (2016), but there are no plans to buy any.

[blazejos]

When you mentioned about this Mi-2 still in usage I dig and found some propostion of improved more detailed Mi-2 icons which I d'like to share. These are of course generic without weapons but if will be usefully I can made variants with with Rockets and ATGM's

[cronos0738]

Nice work Blazejos !!!

[Pibwl]

Originally Posted by Pibwl

Poland OOB02
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On the other hand, other armed variants of Mi-2: URN/URNG (#115/741) with rockets and US with machine guns (#742) most probably ceased to be used well before 2015 - I would say 2005 at best.

I've found a new article on Polish helicopters (Nowa Technika Wojskowa 4/2021), according to which #742 Mi-2US was introduced in mid-1971 (say, 1/72) and retired already in late 1970s - rebuilt to URN and URP (now 73-115)

741 Mi-2URNG - I was going to write, that the variant with Strela AAMs in addition to rockets surely didn't appear as early as 1973 - but when I started to dig, I haven't found any sign, that it actually existed, even as a prototype (there was first a prototype URS with Strelas only). The mentioned article says, that Strelas were adapted only for missile-armed URP-G.

Maybe missile load of 117,740 Mi-2URP / URPG could be doubled - they carried 4 missiles on launchers, but additional 4 were carried inside, and could be reloaded in a few minutes after landing in field.
The latter's designation is always written as URP-G. According to the article, it was tested in 1987 and commissioned only in 1988 (now 1/87)

114 Mi-4A - all but one withdrawn already by 10/84, last one in 7/85 (now 12/85)

Mi-6 were also used in 1/86 - 8/90 (could be copied from Russian oob, but unarmed)

[Pibwl]

Ecuador OOB82

Received H145 Cobra from 10/2020 - apparently unarmed https://www.aviacionline.com/2021/04...us-h145-cobra/