From aeronautics.ru
Mi-8MT (`Hip-H’): Designation of standard Mi-17s in RFAS military service. Twin or triple stores racks, but normal armament is 40 Ч 80 mm S-8 rockets in two BV-8-20A packs. Afghan experience led to adoption of nose armour, IR jammer, IR suppressors and provision for door-mounted PKT machine gun (rear starboard) and AGS-17 Plamya grenade launcher or NSV 12.7 mm Utyos heavy machine gun (forward port cabin door).
Mi-8AMT: Designation for unarmed version used by RFAS, but also applied to some civil (perhaps ex-military) examples.
Mi-8MT EW variants: More than 30 EW versions of the Mi-8MT serve with RFAS armed forces, under the designations Mi-8MTSh (Shakhta: mine), Mi-8MTPSh, Mi-8MTU, Mi-8MTA, Mi-8MTP, Mi-8MTPB (Bizon: bison; see below), Mi-8MTR, Mi-8MTI (Ikebana: ikebana; see below), Mi-8MTPI and Mi-8MTTs.
Mi-8MTPB (or Mi-17TPB, Mi-17P, Mi-17PP) (`Hip-H EW’): ECM (radar and communications jammer) and comint helicopter, with three jamming systems in D/F band range over 30є sector and other frequencies over 120є. Operating time 4 hours. Antenna array more advanced than that of Mi-8PPA (`Hip-K’); large 32-element array, resembling vertically segmented panel, aft of main landing gear each side; four-element array to rear on tailboom each side; large radome each side of cabin, below jet nozzle; triangular container in place of rear cabin window each side; six heat exchangers under front fuselage. (Mi-17P designation used also for civil export versions.) Similar versions include Mi-8MTP; Mi-8MTR; Mi-8MTSh; Mi-8MTPSh; Mi-8MTU; Mi-8TYa; Mi-8MTI (Mi-17 with small horizontal array on forward part of boom and larger box-like radome on cabin side); Mi-8MTPI; Mi-8MTTs2 and Mi-8MTTs3 with non-rectangular (`teardrop’) radome on cabin sides and less regularly shaped arrays on sides of rear cabin.
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