Takom are making good on the CADs from 2022 with both the 35th scale Mi-28N & NE Hokum B Night Hunters in December. CAD features of both in our preview...
Takom's new 35th scale Mi-28N & NE kits coming in December
Mi-28N (+NE) Havoc Russian attack helicopters
From Takom
1/35th scale
Kit No: #2610 & 2611
Plastic, etch, metal & 3D-printed parts.
Release date: December
Mi-28N Havoc Russian attack helicopter
The Mi-28 combat helicopter has been developed by the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant and is known by the NATO codename Havoc. In August 1996, Mil rolled out a prototype of the day and night capable version, the Mi-28N Night Havoc. The first production Mi-28N took its first flight in April 2004 and began flight testing with the Russian Air Force in June 2005. The Russian Air Force has plans to procure up to 60 of this variant, now called the Mi-28NE Night Hunter.
Three were ordered in 2005, and 16 more in 2006 for delivery by 2008. The first production aircraft was delivered in May 2006 and began formal acceptance testing in September 2006. Five aircraft are involved in the testing, which is scheduled to conclude in early 2008. Mi-28 can fly at a maximum speed of 300km/h, can fly rearwards and sideways at speeds up to 100km/h and is able to hover turn at 45° a second.
Mi-28 Havoc attack helicopter design
The helicopter design is based on the conventional pod and boom configuration, with a tail rotor. The main rotor head has elastomeric bearings, and the main rotor blades are made from composite materials. The tail rotor is designed on a biplane configuration, with independently controlled X-shaped blades. A new design of all plastic rotor blades, which can sustain hits from 30mm shells, has been installed on the Night Havoc Mi-28N helicopter.
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The helicopter has a non-retractable tricycle tail-wheel-type landing gear. The energy-absorbing landing gear and seats protect the crew in a crash landing or in a low-altitude vertical fall. The crew is able to survive a vertical fall of up to 12 m/s. The Mi-28 has a fully armoured cabin, including the windscreen, which withstands impact by 7.62mm and 12.7mm bullets and 20mm shell fragments.
Mi-28 weapons
The Mi-28A has small, swept-back, mid-mounted stub wings with four suspension units. Countermeasures pods are mounted on the wingtips. The helicopter can be armed with a mixture of air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles, unguided rockets, and podded guns. The Mi-28 and Mi-28N Night Havoc are armed with Shturm and Ataka anti-tank missiles supplied by the Kolumna Design Bureau (KBM). Up to 16 anti-tank missiles can be mounted on the helicopter. Shturm is a short-range, radio command-guided missile. The Ataka missile’s guidance is by a narrow radar beam, and the maximum range of the missile is 8 km. The missile has a tandem shaped-charge warhead for penetration of 950mm to 1,000mm armour.
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The helicopter can also carry four containers, each with 20 80mm unguided rockets or with five 122mm rockets. The helicopter can alternatively carry containers with grenade launchers, 23mm guns, 12.7mm and 7.62mm machine guns, aerial bombs, and incendiary tanks. The helicopter is equipped with a turreted 2A42 30mm cannon, stabilised in two axes, with a muzzle velocity of 1,000m/s.
Fire control and surveillance
The pilot uses a helmet-mounted target designator, which allocates the target to the navigator’s surveillance and fire control system. The navigator / weapons officer is then able to deploy guided weapons or guns against the target. The targeting system follows the direction of the pilot’s eyes.
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The integrated surveillance and fire control system has two optical channels providing wide and narrow fields of view, a narrow-field-of-view optical television channel, and a laser rangefinder. The system can move within 110° in azimuth and from +13° to -40° in elevation.
TV3-117VM A turboshaft engines
The Mi-28A helicopter is powered by two TV3-117VMA turboshaft engines, fitted on either side of the fuselage. It is equipped with an auxiliary power unit for self-contained operation. The thermal signature of the helicopter has been reduced by a factor of 2.5 times compared to its predecessor, the Mi-24.
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MI-28N Night Havoc
The Night Havoc helicopter retains most of the structural design of the Mi-28. The main difference is the installation of an integrated electronic combat system. Other modifications include a new main gearbox for transmitting higher power to the rotor; new high-efficiency blades with swept-shaped tips, and an engine fuel injection control system.
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The main sensors of the integrated electronic combat system are the microwave radar antenna, mounted above the rotor head, and a forward-looking infrared (FLIR) system. The system displays the helicopter location on a moving map indicator and flight systems and target information on liquid crystal displays. The crew are equipped with night-vision goggles.
The Mi-28NE
The Mi-28NE is the dedicated export variant of the domestic Mi-28N "Night Havoc" combat helicopter used by the Russian military. While both share the same core tandem-seat airframe, high-performance Klimov engines, and all-weather operational capabilities, the Mi-28NE was originally configured with capped or modified avionics and communications suites to comply with state export controls.
This Iranian Mi-28NE features a pixelated desert camouflage scheme, consistent with current Iranian military standards and previously seen on Russian export demonstrators at the Army-2018 forum.
However, subsequent modernisation packages specifically tailored for international customers have equipped newer Mi-28NE units with enhanced survivability upgrades not found on the baseline Mi-28N; these include reinforced composite rotor blades capable of withstanding 30 mm shell hits, a redesigned explosion-resistant fuel system, updated cockpit armour, and an advanced Directional Infrared Countermeasures (DIRCM) laser suite to actively deflect heat-seeking missiles.
The new kit from Takom
Takom first shown CADs of this kit in 2022! Now it seems (and likely before others are released), we will see both the Mi-28N & NE "Night Havoc" in 35th scale.
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We have CAD images of each; we will go through both to show you what we found from these details.
Mi-28N Havoc B "Night Hunter"
From Takom
1/35th scale
Kit No: #2610
A plastic kit with photo etch and 3D-printed parts included
Release date: December
A comparison render of two 1/35th scale helicopter model configurations for the two models – the Mi-28N & Mi-28NE. The model on the left represents the Mi-28N with its nose section highlighted in blue. The model on the right represents the Mi-28NE with its nose section and a spherical mast-mounted radar highlighted in pink.
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A showcase of specialised parts included in the model kit. Six inset boxes display various detailed sub-assemblies of the unpainted grey plastic model. The inclusion of metal & photo-etch parts are included. Two sets of landing gear wheels are highlighted in blue and pink.
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A detailed view of the cockpit door assembly options. Four separate panels show close-ups of the crew cabin. The upper two panels show the cockpit doors in an open position highlighted in pink. The lower two panels show the doors in a closed position, which Takom has highlighted in blue. We see the inside and outside of the doors in this photo.
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An overhead view demonstrating main rotor options.
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A breakdown of the wing-mounted weapon options. Four renders display ordnance configurations attached to the under-wing pylons, which are 3D-printed. Both offensive and drop tanks are included in this shot. Pictures show B-8V20A Rocket Pods (shaded in light green/teal and pink), 9M120 Ataka (AT-9 Spiral-2) Anti-tank guided missiles (shaded in purple/pink clusters), external fuel drop tanks / PTB-450 (shaded in dark teal, bottom-right).
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A cutaway view of the tandem cockpit interior revealing the internal structure of the two separate crew stations, showing unpainted grey plastic details for the seats, control sticks, and instrument panels.
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A close-up display of surface textures and panel details. The renders show the exterior skin of the helicopter, emphasising raised and moulded flush rivets, recessed panel lines, grills, and structural seams on the fuselage.
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We get crew! – For the Mi-28N kit, you get two 3D-printed pilot and gunner figures for this kit, which come as a welcome addition to modellers. You can see how they look in and out of the "office".
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Mi-28NE Havoc B "Night Hunter"
From Takom
1/35th scale
Kit No: #2611
A plastic kit with photo etch and 3D-printed parts included
Release date: December
A comparison render of two 1/35th scale helicopter model configurations for the two models – the Mi-28NE & Mi-28N. The model on the left represents the Mi-28NE with its nose section and a spherical mast-mounted radar highlighted in pink. The model on the right represents the Mi-28N with its nose section highlighted in blue.
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A showcase of specialised parts included in the model kit. Six inset boxes display various detailed sub-assemblies of the unpainted grey plastic model, emphasising clear canopy elements alongside photo-etched and metal pieces. Two sets of landing gear wheels are highlighted in blue and pink.
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A detailed view of the cockpit door assembly options. Four separate panels show close-ups of the crew cabin. The upper two panels show the cockpit doors in an open position highlighted in blue. The lower two panels show the doors in a closed position, which Takom has highlighted in pink. We see the inside and outside of the doors in this photo.
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An overhead view demonstrating main rotor options. Two full helicopter models with mast-mounted radars are shown angled diagonally with an arrow between them. The top model has its five main rotor blades highlighted in blue, while the bottom model has its rotor blades highlighted in pink.
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A breakdown of the wing-mounted weapon options display ordnance configurations attached to the under-wing pylons, which include 3D-printed parts. Pictures show specialized guided missile tubes (shaded in blue and pink), a rocket pod variant (shaded in orange), external fuel drop tanks (shaded in light green), and an alternative 3D-printed rocket pod array (shaded in pink and light teal).
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A cutaway view of the tandem cockpit interior revealing the internal structure of the two separate crew stations from an alternate angle, showing unpainted grey plastic details for the seats, control sticks, and instrument panels.
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A close-up display of surface textures and panel details. The renders show the exterior skin of the helicopter, emphasising raised and moulded flush rivets, recessed panel lines, grills, and structural seams on the fuselage.
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For the Mi-28NE version, you can see an alternate crew (ina slightly different pose) provided in this kit.
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That is all we know about this release for now. You can see more about Takom's kits on their website or on their Facebook page.