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Originally Posted by WilliamB
Slovakia took delivery of 2 UH-60M Blackhawks in August and has 7 more on order.
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I wanted to report this as well after reading a Polish article on Slovak helicopters
As for now, UH-60 are not armed, and there are no precise plans to arm them.
Anyway, other
Slovak (OOB51) helo news and corrections, basing upon this article and
https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vzdu%C...skej_republiky
190 Mil Mi-8 - precisely Mi-8T. Standard Mi-8 weren't armed with guns at all (photo without MG:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...Air_Forces.JPG)
195 Mil Mi-17H - scheduled to be withdrawn by 2020.
Non-Soviet Mi-17 rarely were armed with guns, and Slovak ones weren't, as photos confirm.
They could carry as a standard 6 x 32 S-5 rockets (192 in total), now 64.
Photos showing six hardpoints:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...354108134).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...ovak_Mi_17.jpg
https://www.aktuality.sk/fotogaleria...m-jastrabom/4/
200 Mil Mi-24V - all Mi-24 were withdrawn by the end of 9/2011
https://www.webnoviny.sk/vrtulniky-m...armade-koncia/ and
https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vzdu%C...skej_republiky.
Currently Slovakia has no attack helicopters
Mi-24 carry typically 4 x 32 S-5 rockets (128 in total), now 64.
Slovak Mi-24 were camouflaged in several different patterns, so better icon seems 3494 (original pattern), for all terrains.
205 Mil Mi-24P - Slovakia had no Mi-24P, but 8
Mi-24D instead, withdrawn in 2011. Could be copied Czech unit 124.
290 WSK Mi-2 withdrawn by 2013
https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vzdu%C...skej_republiky Better icon is camouflaged 931.
After its withdrawal, Slovakia has no light helicopters.
295 Mi-34 - there's no trace they were ever used.
910 Mi-35M - there's no info it was used - the only versions mentioned are 24D and V. Anyway, they surely weren't received in 1993. Photos at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/C...vakian_service doesn't show 23mm-gun-armed variants.
911 Mil Mi-24 - should be renamed Mi-24V (9M114 missiles), withdrawn in 2011. Better icon is 3494 (BTW, current icon is Mi-24D).
I'm attaching several photos, in case anybody finds them useful.