They’re basically flying tanks. Don’t seem to have changed much since the Afghan War in the 1980’s, thirty years ago. Only differences between this footage and images from those days are the HD video capture, flatter better watered terrain, and buildings that aren’t just rocks and mud brick. It will be interesting to see how the Russians react when a Hind goes down and the crew is beheaded on live feed to Al Jazeera.
Pretty sure that those anti-personnel cluster munitions being dropped like flares are newer than the 1980’s.