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;Mi-35M4:(AH-2 Sabre) Updated version of the Mi-35M with Israeli avionics for the [[Brazilian Air Force]].
;Mi-35P: The export version of the Mi-24P.
;Mi-35P: [[Russian Helicopters]] holding has developed a common standard for Mi-24 modernization designated as Mi-35P. The Mi-35P has received the OPS-24N-1L observation-sight system with a third generation long-wave matrix thermal imager, TV camera, and laser [[rangefinder]]. The upgraded [[gunship]]’s cockpit has the KNEI-24E-1 flight navigation system with multifunctional displays. The PKV-8-35 digital flight system increases the helicopter’s manoeuvrability and steadiness. The modernised gunship is also fitted with the updated PrVK-24-2 targeting system, which allows the use of 9M127-1 Ataka-VM anti-tank guided missiles and either L370 Vitebsk electronic countermeasure system or its export version President-S.<ref name="urlEgypt, Algeria to receive President-S countermeasures systems from Russia - defenceWeb">{{cite web |url=https://www.defenceweb.co.za/industry/industry-industry/egypt-algeria-to-receive-president-s-countermeasures-systems-from-russia/?catid=74&Itemid=30 |title=Egypt, Algeria to receive President-S countermeasures systems from Russia - defenceWeb }}</ref> The helicopter has also received a chin-mounted NPPU-23 turret with a twin-barrel GSh-23L [[autocannon]].<ref>{{Citation | title = Army 2018 Russian helicopters pitches new Mi-24 upgrade | newspaper = Jane's | url = https://www.janes.com/article/82567/army-2018-russian-helicopters-pitches-new-mi-24-upgrade}}.</ref><ref name="urlARMY 2018: Rostec Presents a Modernized Night Hunter Helicopter">{{cite web |url=http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/release/3/195516/rostec-presents-modernized-mi_28ne%2C-mi_35-attack-helicopters.html |title=ARMY 2018: Rostec Presents a Modernized Night Hunter Helicopter }}</ref> Serial production has started as of August 2020 for an export customer.<ref>https://armstrade.org/includes/periodics/news/2020/0824/101559268/detail.shtml</ref><ref>https://www.defenseworld.net/news/27709/Serial_Production_of_Russian_Mi_35P_Helicopter_Launched_for_Export_Customer</ref>
;Mi-35U: Unarmed training version of the Mi-35.
;Mi-PSV: Experimental high-speed helicopter based on the Mi-24. PSV stands for ''Perspektivny skorostnoi vertolet'' (''Перспективный скоростной вертолёт'') – Prospective high speed helicopter). Single-seat streamlined [[cockpit]], unarmed, fitted with experimental main rotors for research into high-speed flight, with a target of increasing the speed of the Mi-28N by 10% and the Mi-35M by 13%.<ref name= FlugRevue>{{Citation | title = Flugrevue | date = November 2015 | pages =54f}}</ref><ref name= ainonline>{{cite web |last1=Karnozov |first1= Vladimir |title= Russian Military Still Funding High-Speed Rotorcraft |url= http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2015-09-03/russian-military-still-funding-high-speed-rotorcraft |website= Ain online |access-date=29 October 2015 |location= Moscow}}</ref> A Mi-24LL PSV demonstrator flew at a level flight speed of "greater than {{convert|405|km/h|kn|abbr= on}}", higher than of the {{convert|401|km/h|kn|abbr= on}} [[Flight airspeed record#Other air speed records|official record]] by [[Westland Lynx#Origins|Lynx]] in 1986.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://vtol.org/news/russia-sets-unofficial-speed-record |title= AHS – Russia sets unofficial speed record|publisher= VTOL | date=8 November 2016|access-date=10 November 2016}}</ref><ref name= FAI_Absolute>{{Citation | url = http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=11659 | title = Rotorcraft Absolute: Speed over a straight 15/25 km course | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131203033038/http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=11659 |date=2013-12-03 | publisher = [[Fédération Aéronautique Internationale]] (FAI) | at = search under E-1 Helicopters and "Speed over a straight 15/25 km course" | access-date = 26 April 2014| archive-date = 2013-12-03 }}.</ref> The mockup was first shown at the 2015 [[MAKS (air show)|MAKS]] International Aviation and Space Salon. In April 2017, the Mi-PSV made first flights equipped with large low mounted wings, mounted nearly at the level of its belly in front of the main landing gear. The normal smaller "Mi-24 wings" at the height of the cabin roof are removed.