[Pollster1]

On the up side, the Russians make great helicopters for that environment. On the down side, we know how helos worked out for them in Afghanistan a few decades back. I hope we learned more from that experience than the other side learned.

[Zhang Fei]

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On the up side, the Russians make great helicopters for that environment. On the down side, we know how helos worked out for them in Afghanistan a few decades back. I hope we learned more from that experience than the other side learned.

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Soviet helicopter losses in Afghanistan were minimal - about 3 a month, compared to our losses of over 50 a month in Vietnam. Ultimately, the Soviet pain threshold proved far lower than ours. Bin Laden was a drooling retard for thinking that Americans were a soft touch compared to the Soviets. The weird thing is that at the time, nobody thought the Soviets would withdraw after such nugatory losses.

http://www.ciaonet.org/cbr/cbr00/video/cbr_ctd/cbr_ctd_52.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_losses_of_the_Vietnam_War