Mil Mi-24P Russian Aerospace Forces attack helicopter
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After the war, the domestic aircraft is quite quickly moved from gun to gun armament. The only exception is the training vehicles and helicopters. In spite of the high specific characteristics of the machine gun Yak b-12,7, he still intended to engage manpower and unarmored vehicles of the enemy. To deal with a little bit protected shelters of the enemy, and the more his armor was useless without guns can not do. In 1974, OKB. Mil began work on equipping the Mi-24 automatic cannon. The choice fell on the aircraft's 30-mm gun GSH-30K (mud-shipunova). The difficulty was installing it into a fighting machine because of its weight and recoil force when firing is not allowed the posting on the old mobile unit. The gun was established as the fighter is stationary and military button brought to the handle control of the machine at the working place of the pilot. Also had weapons designers lengthen the barrels of the gun and to equip them with special nozzles that prints the school muzzle blast for the size of the helicopter.

Gun GSH-30K has posted on the installation of I-280 on the starboard side of the helicopter and in 1975 started the tests, which are due to fine-tuning the weapons was delayed for more than five years. Only in April 1981, the Mi-24P was launched into serial production. As shown by real application of Mi-24P, in some cases, the power of the GSH-30K was excessive, to perform some operations quite sufficient would be cannon caliber 23 mm. To export the helicopter was delivered under the designation Mi-35P.