To: chadwimc
The Hajis had no trouble bringing down Soviet helicopters in Afghanistan. They used regular, old bolt action rifles designed a hundred years ago...
Not against armored Hinds.
Does the word "Stinger" ring a bell?
35 posted on
11/25/2005 10:45:58 AM PST by
George Smiley
(This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
To: George Smiley
They used regular, old bolt action rifles designed a hundred years ago...
Not against armored Hinds. Even against Hinds. You shoot the pilot, by the time the copilot can take it, it's in pieces on the side of a mountain.
70 posted on
11/25/2005 3:29:18 PM PST by
El Gato
To: George Smiley
Actually all you need to kill a chopper in those mountains is a ROCK!
More than one soviet crew learned the hard way to never get BELOW a Muj., or take a large rock thru the blades.
93 posted on
11/26/2005 6:16:23 PM PST by
Richard-SIA
("The natural progress of things is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield" JEFFERSON)
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