The Berkuti were founded as a helicopter aerobatic team in 1992 and used first four, later six, Mil Mi-24 of different versions.

The helicopters were painted in the usual camouflage colors, however, had at the height of the cockpit starting a lightning-shaped strip of over the whole length of the hull in the Russian national colors (White, Blue, Red).

And on the righthand side area of the cockpit the team emblem.

On August 2 2015 at the end of the flight demonstration at Ryazan a helicopter of the Berkuti teams crashed down and caught fire.

The reason for failure was seen in the hydraulic system and led to a temporarily grounding of the whole Mi-28 fleet.