Mi-28 Havoc

The Mi-28 Havoc is a Russian helicopter design based on the conventional pod and boom configuration with a tail rotor. The main rotor head has elastomeric bearings and the main rotor blades are made from composite materials. The tail rotor is designed on a biplane configuration with independently controlled X-shaped blades. A new design of all plastic rotor blades, which can sustain hits from 30-mm shells, has been installed on the Mi-28N "Night" helicopter (see "Variants,"...