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Russia has hundreds of helicopters for attack, air mobile and transport duties? But why? Let's talk about how Russia has incorporated rotarywing aviation into their military and why they use them.

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Harrison, Richard (2001), The Russian Way of War: Operational Art 19041940, Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.

Higham, Robin and Frederick W. Kagan (Des.) (2002), The Military History of the Soviet Union, Palgrave.

Culhane, Kevin. The Soviet Attack Helicopter, US Army Institute for Advanced Russian and East European Studies, 1977.

Collins, Liam; Michael Kofman and John Spencer, The Battle of Hostomel Airport: A Key Moment in Russia’s Defeat in Kyiv, War on the Rocks, August 10, 2023, available at https://warontherocks.com/2023/08/the...

EverettHeath, John. Soviet Helicopters Design, Development and Tactics. Jane’s Information Group, 1988.

McMichael, Scott (2002) “The Soviet Afghan War”, in Higham, Robin and Frederick W. Kagan, The Military History of the Soviet Union, Palgrave.

Kane, Nicholas (2019) From Tukhachevskii to Gerasimov: The Evolution of the Russian Way of Warfare into the Information Age, School of Advanced Military Studies US Army Command and General Staff College Fort Leavenworth, KS.

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Sterrett, James (2007) Soviet Air Force Theory 19191945, Soviet (Russian) Military Theory and Practice, Routledge.

Zabrodskyi, Mykhaylo, Dr Jack Watling, Oleksandr V Danylyuk and Nick Reynolds; Preliminary Lessons in Conventional Warfighting from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: February–July 2022, RUSI, November 30, 2022, https://rusi.org/exploreourresearch...

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00:00 Russian Helicopters
00:30 Conflict of Nations [Sponsor]
01:16 Soviet Legacy
01:53 Helicopters in a Nutshell
02:30 Historical Trajectory
03:59 Soviet Helicopters
05:07 Why Helicopters in Military Planning
08:01 Air Support
11:03 RussoUkrainian War
12:27 Path Dependency
14:50 Handover to You

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