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To: JohnyBoy

In Red Dawn, A Hind took a direct hit from an RPG and kept on going!


39 posted on 07/19/2017 5:33:34 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan
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To: T-Bone Texan

Even the parent Mi-8 transport helicopter has been known to do that. Here’s one that ate a missile in Syria. It pretty much shrugs off the SAM and keeps flying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJG-w70Tlvc

The people responsible for launching the missile are immediately jubilant when the missile scores a hit but are quite disheartened when the Russian chopper fails to explode, fall out of the air, go on fire or pretty much do anything else but keep flying.

Here’s a Hind getting a missile in the ‘face’ and it just keeps flying:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVzq8YZcBqQ


40 posted on 07/19/2017 6:23:45 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: T-Bone Texan
In Red Dawn, A Hind took a direct hit from an RPG and kept on going!

As I recall it conveniently flies behind a hill and then you see an explosion. Blowing up a real helicopter would jack up the budget, and CGI wasn't around then. Then the second Hind kills the guy who shot down the first one.

52 posted on 07/19/2017 2:45:06 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism wiithout Nationalism is a fraud.)
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