A Can of Man
Je suis aware
I'd say give 'em a break over that one.
I think helicopters are pretty useless in today's battlefields as they are easily vulnerable and slow. Yet when it comes to heavy missiles, repeated gunfire and loud military sounds, the helicopters are the best. It's just that they seem so much vulnerable
its so strange...but i just have to speak my peace about helicopters, the technological advances to protect them from antipated battlefield weapons...and what can actually take one down.
No matter how good the technology developed to actually offset the technological advantage of a defense... when all else fails sometimes the old ways work best of all.
For an example: during the Viet Nam war, when the US forces were being placed in an air mobile war footing, it was strange how the vietanese forces always looked for a simple and pragmatic way of dealing with the situation.
During one patrol sweep, a US military force actually found a giant cross bow, with steel rebar rods to be used as bolts, posistioned near what appeared to be a current helicopter air path commonly used by US forces. It wasnt that the device was ever noted to be sucessful in actually downing a helicopter: what was more notable that the Viet nam forces had reconised that it might be a sure way of nailing a helicopter was a bolt through the blades of the current design of the helicopter. Folks, you even bend the blades on a two rotor helicopter...and it sets up a vibration and possible catostrophic failure of the system that if nothing else required a team of mechanics to sweat and curse the repair and testing of the repair that would remove a helicopter from service.
technology my hot buttered tail bone. there aint no such thing as an ignorant enemy, only ignorant dreamers. or somthing to that effect.
bring on the hot flame blasts ...:shock:
CH-47 Chinook !
Hitting and kocking the blades out of snyc on a two rotor configuration helo like a Ch 46 would mean a catastrophic rotor collision and utter loss of lift...But you would have to hit it pretty hard, on a CH 47 those rotors are pretty big.
I prefer any helicopter that can get my butt out of trouble. Then I don´t care what it's called. ;-)
the chinook is a mystical piece of machinery, that stays airborne using just pixie dust mixed with a single chuck norris chest hair.
Apache and Eurotiger are formidable. I wouldn't to be a jet jockey facing a swarm of them.
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