And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Big, ugly, intimidating thing. The Opfor at JRTC at Fort Polk had one back in the mid-90s. Scary as hell to have that thing pop over a ridge and light you up.
The Army had training manuals that showed soldiers where to aim with your M16 when one was coming right at you. I told my platoon that if they ever saw a Russian helicopter at that angle, to keep their heads down and tell the pilot of the helicopter "thank you for shopping at Walmart" as he flew overhead
They can't fly nap-of-the-earth all that well. The high tail rotor boom and the flexibility of the blades means that too sharp of a pitch-down maneuver will result in cutting off your tail boom and losing at least one of five rotor blades. You'd best hope you were slow and low down and really lucky because you will be kissing the ground very shortly.
Bark & Bite!
ReplyDeleteI wanna see him shoot the harpoon 😉
ReplyDeleteLooks like a Mi-24 Hind. No harpoon on those.
ReplyDeleteBig, ugly, intimidating thing. The Opfor at JRTC at Fort Polk had one back in the mid-90s. Scary as hell to have that thing pop over a ridge and light you up.
ReplyDeleteThe Army had training manuals that showed soldiers where to aim with your M16 when one was coming right at you. I told my platoon that if they ever saw a Russian helicopter at that angle, to keep their heads down and tell the pilot of the helicopter "thank you for shopping at Walmart" as he flew overhead
ReplyDeleteThey can't fly nap-of-the-earth all that well. The high tail rotor boom and the flexibility of the blades means that too sharp of a pitch-down maneuver will result in cutting off your tail boom and losing at least one of five rotor blades. You'd best hope you were slow and low down and really lucky because you will be kissing the ground very shortly.
ReplyDeleteActually, the Stinger is what made these obsolete in A-stan in 1979. ;)
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