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Really?, do you remember that pics of an Ah-64 Apache shot down with Kalashnikovs in operation Iraki freedom ?
More Beechs. This aircraft were used mostly for electronical recce task.
Awesome pics of the King Air 200!
I do, but I thought that was more a lucky shot considering that a Kalashnikov would have an amount of kick in it, and also the fact that helicopter was probably in the air when fired at. I think both parties probably got a surprise that it worked...
CB - a helo hitting AAA from defilade is not related to an Apache getting hit with small arms fire
wich is a rare ocurrence
But is related to the vulnerabilty of the helicopter compared to an devoted CAS aircraft.
Look at the numbers of sorties flown, and our helos that have been brought down by rifle fire. It's rare.Not so rare I remember an episode during the Falklands/Malvinas war in wich the Infantry regiment 25 destroyed 2 Aerospatiale Gazelle with combined FAls fire in matter of minutes. Off course the Gazelles had the excuse to be not as armored as the Apache.
Marine Corps admitted that recent CH-47 downed was by a double digit Manpads. They noted that the countermeasures were never activated and the detection system never saw it coming. That is certainly both significant and telling of the technology leaking in from outside sources.
Actually the majority of shootdowns were not by SA-7s. We have countermeasures that are allmost 100 percent effective against the SA-7 and very very effective against the SA-14.
The SA-16 is harder to defeat and the SA-18 is well...
Marine Corps admitted that recent CH-47 downed was by a double digit Manpads. They noted that the countermeasures were never activated and the detection system never saw it coming. That is certainly both significant and telling of the technology leaking in from outside sources.
Yeap 16 or 18 probably.