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MOSCOW, May 20. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has published a video showing Mi-28N Night Hunter helicopters and Ka-52 «Alligator» strikes with unguided and guided missiles at the positions of the Ukrainian troops. It is shown how a Mi-28N taking off from the airfield at an extremely low altitude goes to the target over the countryside, flying over freshly plowed fields and plantings. The helicopter then fires 80mm and 122mm unguided rockets from a nose-up position, tilting its nose at launch to increase the range of the rockets.The Ministry of Defense showed footage of the suppression of the Ukrainian counterattack The helicopter makes several passes, each time leaving to an extremely low altitude with a large roll in order to avoid the likely fire of Ukrainian MANPADS. The video shows helicopters of the army aviation of the Western Military District.The Ministry of Defense showed footage of the destruction of American howitzers in Ukraine «As a result of regular combat missions, command posts and armored vehicles of the Armed Forces units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed,» the department notes. the weapon control system allows you to use various types of weapons in automatic mode, which increases accuracy and minimizes the consumption of ammunition. «The enemy mainly uses MANPADS in large quantities. This complicates the implementation of the assigned combat missions. We have to use weapons from the maximum range, even sometimes beyond the visual visibility on pre-programmed targets,» the pilot adds. The Ministry of Defense specifies that during a special military operation, pilots spend more time in the sky than on the ground. There is a little more than an hour between sorties, just to reload the helicopter's armament.