Mi-8PPA HIP-K airborne jamming platform and communications intelligence platform, with a unique antenna array either side of the fuselage.

The Mi-8MTPB (HIP-H EW) is the successor to the original Mi-8PPA HIP-K. It is provided with long-range communication equipment and a radar, and it can carry equipment with phased-array antennas for suppression of enemy electronic attack and air defense facilities, such as airborne radars, air defense (artillery) weapons control radars, surveillance and target detection radars and missile radar homing heads. The ECM equipment can work both in the reconnaissance and ECM modes or in the reconnaissance mode. Similar versions include the Mi-8MTP; Mi-8MTR; Mi-8MTSh; Mi-8MTPSh; Mi-8MTU; Mi-8TYa; and Mi-8MTI: they can be identified by their small horizontal array on forward part of boom and larger box-like radome on cabin side. The Mi-8MTPI and Mi-8MTT can be identified by their 'teardrop' radome on the cabin sides and the less regularly shaped arrays on sides of rear cabin.