Posted on 03/21/2013 7:56:01 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Still a big missile target.
“We do not fear the Russians, but we do fear their helicopters.”
viz= "The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Marchione.
Ugly but effective.
Good old flying dishwashers.
I love flying these choppers in Battlefield 3. They’re clunky as Hell and handle like a Yugo with 3 flat tires.
They were never a match for Rambo.
In fact only a few were really shot down by Stingers. Soviets were pretty quick with effective countermeasures.
Almost all choppers are. Slow and low lumbering targets. Just ask the Army chaps if they like riding in Blackhawks.
Gurgen Karapetyan set a world helicopter flight speed record of 368.4kmh in an Mi-24....... that speed was recorded just seconds before it nose-dived into the ground.
But could withstand a Wolverine RPG.
They look like bugs.
Well especially when it goes clear through the door openings on both sides.
four groups of 10,000 parts, provided by the low bidder, in close formation beating the air into submission while trying their best to become separate again.
Here’s a link to an article listing 74 Hi-24’s lost in Afghanistan, along with 14 ‘unidentified’, some of which must have been Hi-24’s.
It does not say whether they were lost to Stingers, or any particular weapon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_aircraft_losses_in_Afghanistan
You’re thinking of the Mi-28 Havoc. There are some similarities, like the stairstep profile, but they’re very different choppers.
To be more detailed 43 Hinds suffered 89 hits from manpads of all types during Afghan-Soviet War, 18 aircraft totaled beyond repair (including abandoned after forced landing and destroyed by fellow fighter-bombers). Most Soviet losses inflicted through 1986 to earlier 1987. In fact Russians captured and learned a Stinger in about a month after it has first appeared and they were fast with countermeasures. Exhaust coolers, IR-jammer and flare dispensers you can see on newer models made Stinger almost as obsolete as previous manpads against this type of chopper. Since late 1987 hit ratio was back to about 1-200. Hinds usually patrolled and attacked in packs of two to eight aircraft in a carousel formation covering each other. Considering countermeasures it was pretty suicidal to fire Stinger at such a formation, the result was usually fatal for an AA-team with little to none effect on aircraft.
You’re right. My apologies for the misinformation.
May have just been a loading issue. Been on a Bell Ranger had the same problem at altitude.
The afghans use to tie themselves up in the top of a tree and try to hit them with RPGs. They had to be up high because the backblast of an RPG will take your legs off if you aim it up and fire. Some number of those were likely brought down by RPGs.
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