Available to Warsaw Pact forces, the Mi-9 is a Soviet recon helicopter. It was renamed to Mi-8R in Wargame: Red Dragon, due to Mi-9 being a command post version of the helicopter, while the Mi-8R is the actual recon version.
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Mi-8R was battlefield reconnaissance variant equipped with a R-345 "Grebeshok-5" (Cockscomb) ELINT suite with three deployed in East Germany.