Serve my Homeland 17.08.2003 (2003)

Boris Galkin in the studio.

A video about the MI-24 helicopter.

The MI-24 is an attack helicopter developed by the Mil Design Bureau.

Its unofficial name is "Crocodile".

It was the first Soviet specialized combat helicopter; serial production began in 1971. It has many modifications, was exported to many countries around the world, and was actively used during the Afghan War, during the fighting in Chechnya, and in many regional conflicts.

The MI-24 helicopter in the air.

Mikhail Leontyevich Mil is a Soviet helicopter designer.

The MI-24 helicopter fires two missiles in flight.

Explosions on the ground.

View of the terrain from the helicopter cockpit.

The instrument panel of the MI-24 helicopter.

The MI-24 helicopter makes a turn.

The MI-24 helicopter fires its cannon at armored vehicles on the ground in flight.

Four MI-24 helicopters in the air.

An MI-24 helicopter with its propeller running is on the ground.

NATO soldiers are in the command post, an officer is talking on the phone at the monitor.

An MI-24 helicopter is flying low over the ground above the road.

The MI-24 helicopter fires a missile in flight.

The missile hits the tank turret, explosion.

The presenter is talking about the MI-28 "Night Hunter" helicopter.

The MI-28 helicopter hovers in the air and makes a turn.

Alexey Samusenko, General Designer of the Moscow Helicopter Plant, is talking about the technical characteristics of the MI-28 helicopter.

The MI-28M helicopter hovers in the air and makes turns.

Alexey Samusenko draws attention to the energy-absorbing chassis of the helicopter.

The pilot is in the cockpit of the MI-28 helicopter, the propeller is turning.

The MI-28 helicopter is in the air.

The MI-28 helicopter is transported by a tractor along the airfield.

View of the helicopter's tandem cockpits, the navigator's cockpit in front, the pilot's cockpit in the back.

Alexey Samusenko demonstrates the compartment for transporting airfield personnel of the MI-28 helicopter.

The screen is the onboard instrumentation.

The MI-28 helicopter in the night sky.

The pilot in the MI-28 helicopter cockpit.

View from the MI-28 helicopter flying over the river.

Alexey Samusenko, standing at the tail rotor of the MI-28 helicopter, talks about the helicopter's maneuverability and performing aerobatics.

The MI-28 helicopter performs the "Dead Loop" aerobatic maneuver.

The MI-28 helicopter in the night sky performs the "Dead Loop" aerobatic maneuver.

The helicopter's illuminated crosshair and tracer bullet marks.

The MI-28 helicopter in the night sky.

The night vision screen on the MI-28 helicopter's instrument panel.

Samusenko Alexey points to the casing of the device, which contains the means of counteracting the helicopter's radar detection.

The MI-24 helicopter fires a missile in flight.

Explosions on the ground.

The movable 30-millimeter cannon under the bottom of the helicopter standing on the ground makes a turn.

A technician loading a belt with shells into the helicopter compartment.

The movable cannon of the helicopter makes a turn.

Firing at the armored cabin of the helicopter on the stand.

The pilot in the cabin points to a dent from a bullet in the armored glass of the cabin, the glass did not break.

In the studio Andrianov Yury Mikhailovich - General Director of the Moscow Helicopter Plant named after Mil, says that the MI-28 is comparable with the best world developments of this kind of helicopters, and in a number of respects exceeds them.

Andrianov Yury Mikhailovich speaks about the US Air Force helicopter "Apache".

Andrianov Yury Mikhailovich speaks about Russian helicopter manufacturing.

Yuri Mikhailovich Andrianov demonstrates a unique photograph depicting an MI-26 helicopter transporting a US Air Force Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter on cables.

A video about paratroopers: A paratrooper instructor explains to soldiers the technique of landing with a parachute on both feet.

Soldiers with parachutes, equipped with weapons, jump on car tires and metal structures.

Soldiers with parachutes on their backs run along a training ground.

A soldier practices a jump and fall.

Paratroopers practice leaving the line with weapons and reporting to a senior in rank on the parade ground before taking the military oath.

Soldiers of a military unit in a ceremonial formation on the parade ground.

A soldier with a machine gun leaves the line and reports.

Units of soldiers with machine guns march along the parade ground.

Soldiers march in place.

Ceremonial carrying of the banner in front of the formation.

Paratroopers in blue berets stand in formation.

A paratrooper reads the text of the military oath.

The paratrooper captain congratulates the soldier on taking the oath with a handshake.

A mother hugs her paratrooper son who took the oath.

A girl wipes away a tear.

A father congratulates his paratrooper son who took the oath.

Fragments from previous programs: Odinokov Sergey, a conscript, talks to the military commissar at the military registration and enlistment office, talks to a girl in a factory shop, during sports activities.

Oksana, a paratrooper's girlfriend, disassembles a Kalashnikov assault rifle from the studio.

Odinokov Sergey takes a running test.

Odinokov Sergey takes the test at the recruiting office.

Odinokov Sergey puts on a parachute.

Odinokov Sergey jumps with a parachute on a training stand.

Odinokov Sergey tells his family about his first parachute jump.

Pershunov Alexander, a company commander, talks about the paratroopers who took the oath.

Odinokov Sergey demonstrates a marching step.

A girl takes a photo of paratrooper Odinokov Sergey with his mother and brother.

Odinokov Sergey shows his brother how to properly wrap a foot wrap on his leg.

Odinokov Sergey opens the gates of a hangar with armored vehicles.

Odinokov Sergey talks about serving as a fitter - mechanic in the unit.

The commander instructs soldiers on how to spend their city vacation.

Odinokov Sergey marches on the parade ground with relatives.

A patrolman checks Odinokov Sergey's documents at the checkpoint.

A video story about Archpriest Vladimir Mishchenko, Chairman of the Department for Interaction with the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies of the Yekaterinodar and Kuban Diocese, Rector of the Church of the Holy Martyr John the Warrior on the territory of the Flight School of the city of Krasnodar, military pilot - instructor of the 1st class, retired major.

In the rank of 11 years.

In 1981, he graduated from the Yeisk Higher Military Pilot School and made 58 parachute jumps.

He served in the army for 18 years, during which time he trained 30 military pilots and logged 1,800 flight hours.

He flew Su-7B fighter-bombers and various modifications of the Su-17. Clergyman Father Vladimir tells the pilots before takeoff that they need to cross the plane and check the air intakes before the flight.

Two fighters in the sky.

Clergyman Father Vladimir takes off his cassock and puts on a pilot's suit.

Clergyman Father Vladimir in the cockpit of the plane, wearing a helmet, putting on a mask.

The Yak-130 plane taxis to the runway.

Clergyman Father Vladimir in the cockpit of the plane during the flight.

The Yak-130 plane accelerates and takes off.

The dispatcher at the flight control center communicates with the pilot on the radio.

The Yak-130 is approaching for landing.

The plane is in the air.

The Yak-130 is landing.

The Yak-130 is parked.

Clergyman Father Vladimir in the cockpit, talking about practicing difficult situations on the ground on a simulator.

A fighter jet flies over the mountains, fires missiles, an explosion.

View from the cockpit of the plane of the missile launch from the side and explosions on the ground.

Soldiers enter the church in formation.

Ryabinov Aleksey, the head of the Krasnodar Higher Military Aviation School, talks about the clergyman Father Vladimir.

Servicemen and Father Vladimir in the church.

Dark-skinned pilots talk about the clergyman Father Vladimir.

Father Vladimir and the pilots walk along the airfield.

The Yak-130 is taking off.

Clergyman Father Vladimir with a pilot's helmet in his hand at the airfield.

The Yak-130 is taxiing to the runway.

Clergyman Father Vladimir climbs out of the fighter jet cockpit and descends the ladder to the ground, crosses himself.

View from the pilot's cockpit of a Yak-130 aircraft moving along the runway.

Clergyman Father Vladimir at the airfield, speaking about the suspension from flights.

Patriarch Alexy II - Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', at a military airfield.

Patriarch Alexy II - Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', consecrating the site of the foundation of a new church.

Clergyman Father Vladimir at the airfield, speaking about love for God and love for the sky.

Yak-52 aircraft in the sky.

Yak-52 aircraft at the airfield, a technician is standing on the wing.

Clergyman Father Vladimir gets into the cockpit together with the instructor.

Lenchik starts the aircraft engine, the propeller turns.

Yak-52 aircraft in the sky.

Clergyman Father Vladimir in the aircraft cockpit during the flight.

View from the cockpit of a Yak-52 aircraft flying nearby.

The Yak-52 aircraft is performing an aerobatic maneuver in the sky.

Priest Father Vladimir is making a parachute jump with an instructor.

Priest Father Vladimir is landing with a parachute together with an instructor.

Priest Father Vladimir and the instructor are hugging each other on the ground.

A parachutist in the sky.

The presenter says goodbye to the audience.