Mil Mi-4

Mil Mi-4 at Prague Aviation Museum

The Mil Mi-4 (originally known to US intelligence as the Type-36 and later by the NATO reporting name Hound) was a Soviet transport helicopter that served in both military and civilian roles.

The Mi-4 was designed in response to the American Sikorsky S-55 and the deployment of U.S. helicopters during the Korean War. The first model entered service in 1952 and replaced the Mi-1. The helicopter was first displayed to the outside world in 1953 at the Soviet Aviation Day in Tushino.

One Mi-4 was built with a jettisonable rotor.

The Mi-4 went out of service with the development of the Mi-8. It is not used by the Russian Air Force today, though it remains in service in some countries as a utility helicopter or a military transport.

Contents

0.1 Variants

1 Specifications (Mi-4A)

1.1 Operators
1.2 Civil Operators

2 External links
3 Related content

Variants

Mi-4 Hound-A - Basic production version.
Mi-4A - Armed assault transport version.
Mi-4L - Six-seat VIP transport version.
Mi-4M Hound-C - Armed close-support version.
Mi-4P - Civil transport version.
Mi-4PL Hound-B - Anti-submarine warfare version.
Mi-4S Salon - VIP transport version.
Mi-4Skh - Multi-role agricultural version.
Z-5 - Chinese production version.

Specifications (Mi-4A)

Operators

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Egypt, Finland, Guinea Bissau, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Mali, Mongolia, North Korea, Poland, Romania, Somalia, Soviet Union, South Yeman, Syria, Sudan, Vietnam, Yeman, Yugoslavia,

Civil Operators

Aeroflot,

External links