Just recently, special units from Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate participated in training exercises at one of the front lines, utilizing an American Black Hawk helicopter.
Here’s What We Observed
Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate reveals that special units practiced deploying combat groups on the battlefield, evacuations, rappelling from landing ropes, and night flights.
The Black Hawk helicopter is designed to launch both guided and unguided Hellfire missiles. It can serve in support of infantry and transport a range of cargo. The Black Hawk is easy to pilot and boasts a high horizontal flight speed. It can maintain continuous flight for approximately three hours and is capable of covering a distance exceeding 600 km.
According to crew members and pilots, it surpasses its Soviet counterparts, the Mi-8 and Mi-24, in nearly all aspects.
Ukrainian crews mastered the Black Hawk in just a few hours, conducting flights on the very day the helicopter arrived in Ukraine.
The first pilot of the helicopter stated that this particular Black Hawk is already actively participating in combat operations, including those within enemy territory.