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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
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Yep, MI 26 Halo. The Soviets know how to make things really big.
In a previous life worked at a place where we kitted these out with night vision kit for operational duty somewhere off the maps in the north of Africa. At the same point in time we also serviced stabilized camera equipment on a Bell Jet Ranger contracted to Discovery Channel, which was often parked in close proximity to where the Halos were kept. To understand how big the Halo is, you really have to see it next to a Bell - it made it look like a scale model!
They are powerful too. At one time we were moving some of our workshop equipment around, and had a couple of heavy duty full height tool cabinets standing outside the building when a Halo came in to land. Even well outside the exclusion zone surrounding the landing pad the downwash was enough to toss these cabinets around as if they were made from paper.