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Attack helicopter Mi-28N “Night hunter” (NATO classification — Havoc or Havoc-B) first took to the air on 14 November 1996. 19 years later, the shock machine part of the air group VC Russia in Syria, which at the invitation of the Syrian government is fighting against militants of the “Islamic state” and “Dzhebhat EN Nusra” (an organization banned in Russia).