These pictures (and a few others not dressed up) were circulated a lot just after 9/11 when we went in to Afghanistan. There were some captions that I don't remember (or if true) but they indicated that they were "our" 24Ds - but lots of people have them, not just the Russians... Yes, that is one nasty gunship/troop carrier and maybe some of you Star Wars fans might recognize some od the craft in the movies, not sure of the name as I'm not a S.W. nut, looked eerily like the Hind.
The Hind is very fast, fairly manueverable and it can outrun (or catch) an Apache. Though the Apache "could" still kick it's ass.
Now you want to talk interesting OPFOR, look at those 2 squardons of 29s the Luftwaffe has
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