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Posted on 09/15/2014 4:05:55 AM PDT by wetphoenix
Iraq's first Mi-28 Havoc 'Night Hunter' attack chopper has taken flight in Iraq. These are some of the most heavily armed and capable attack helicopters in the world. Three were delivered alongside four new Mi-35 'Hind' attack helicopters from Russia as part of an expedited order placed to help fight the spread of ISIS.
The Mi-28NE is roughly analogous to the US Army's AH-64D Apache and is adapted to fight at night and in adverse weather conditions. The chopper is armed with a chin-mounted 30mm cannon and can carry up to 16 guided missiles as well as 40 unguided rockets or two gun pods. Igla air-to-air missiles, mine dispensers and bombs can also be carried.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com ...
I find it ironic that they are flying a machine designed and built by western culture and they set it to western movie music. I never saw the pilot who did such fancy maneuvers, but I’ll lay odds he isn’t an Iraqi.
It is fine to have these machines and even fly them well. They are like all sophisticated machines expensive and difficult to maintain.
Looks like a bulky POS
Will the peaceniks of the “religion of peace” use the attack chopper on the head-chopper “hijackers” of the “religion of peace” or run and turn the chopper over to the choppers?
Who’s on 1st?
The question in my mind is did Putin get paid this time?
Yes.
With your tax dollars.
What bothers me is that we are fighting with 30 and 40 year old machines. We are a generation behind our most likely adversaries. Now out stuff is good, but at some point we need to replace the Apache.
I fear we have focused so much on stealth, we forget that a few super expensive planes and helicopters do not have the same effect as a large number of good robust ones.
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They were designed and built by Russia, which is not generally regarded as Western culture (although Russia has certainly been influenced by it).
A10 IS A GOOD Example of what you are talking about.
It is the archetype of what I mean.
Which is why the Air Force hates them.
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They are a Christian nation. All the while the Soviets were blustering, I never feared because they never dressed up their children in suicide vests and never worshipped death. (Also, the Soviet Union was led by elderly men more concerned with their falling arches and aching hemorrhoids than conquering the world.)
In my book, if nowhere else, a Christian nation is part of western culture.
Yes, it’s true, they are a Christian nation, but they are an Eastern Orthodox Christian nation. The traditional concept of a divide between “Eastern” and “Western” culture started over the divide between the Eastern and Western church. Of course, that divide was later accentuated by the presence of Muslims, and the various Indian and East Asian religions.
Take a look into the theology of Eastern Orthodoxy. It is fascinating, but it’s also a lot more alien to western thought than I ever imagined it could be. I think if I spent the rest of my life living in an Eastern Orthodox country and attended their churches daily, I still don’t think I could really put myself in their mindset; I have a mostly* western mind.
*And I say “mostly” because I’m an American Indian and there are some cultural differences between me and most Americans (though I do come from a tribe that took to Christianity quickly and enthusiastically).
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