[LadyDoc]

How disheartening, to have a helicopter shot down. Where's the technology to make it impossible to shoot down our helicopters? Why don't we have that?

short of a force field around the rotors, I'm not sure how we can stop it...maybe Captain Kirk will lend us the technology...

[CatoRenasci]

Unfortunately, helicopters are an extremely vulnerable, albeit useful, technology.

[samtheman]

The Army's AN/ALQ-156(V)1 Missile Approach Detector / Missile Approach Warning System (MAWS) an airborne radar system carried on the CH-47D which is designed to warn of a threat missile actually targeting the aircraft, thus enabling the effective employment of evasive maneuvers and electronic warfare and infrared countermeasures. It was developed as part of the Integrated Defensive Avionics Program (IDAP), along with the AN/ALE-50. The AN/ALQ-156(V)2 Missile Approach Detector provides protection for the EH-60A, RC-12, C-23B aircraft, and the AN/ALQ-156(V)3 is used on the OV-1D.

---AN/ALQ-156A MAWS Missile Approach Warning System

And this is just one example. There must be more like this in our arsenal. Why aren't they working 100%?

[varon]

short of a force field around the rotors, I'm not sure how we can stop it...maybe Captain Kirk will lend us the technology...

..........or perhaps the Klingons will share their cloaking technology with us ;-)

[elfman2]

"Where's the technology to make it impossible to shoot down our helicopters? "

Putting it in a medical terms, it’s like the technology that makes it “impossible” to get pregnant.