why do american SOF helicopters keep getting shot down? the overwhelming majority of SOF members deaths in the past 30 years have been because of helicopter shootdowns
>>64475587helicopters are the most dangerous vehicle to be in on any battlefield.
You are not getting out in any other transport
NEVER and i mean NEVER get in a helicopter
>>64475587I'm a 15U. Helicopters are sketchy as fuck.
>>64475587It's not an american thing, it's a helicopter thing. Helicopters are bloodthirsty death machines who want to murder everyone embarked on them at all times
>>64475957>It's not an american thing, it's a helicopter thing.i know, it happens to americans more often simply because they have so many more of them but you'd think that by this point they'd come up with tactics and procedures to minimize it to the point that you don't have to read about this or that helicopter full of SOF troops getting shot down every once in a whileof the recent heli shootdowns i've read about, more often than not it's because they want to insert as fast as possible while throwing caution to the wind
>>64475587because helicopters are easy to shoot down
>>64475618Lmao wtf happened here? KA-52 shooting their own during training exercise?
>>64476012Pilot saw civilian journalists and knew what he was obliged to do as a Russian soldier.
>>64475970They have come up with tactics and procedures to minimize it. That's why you read about single helis going down every few years instead of one per day like the Vietnam War.
>>64476012iirc it was a training setup, with the targets a few clicks down that same clearing. this is why american CAS is trained to strike perpendicular to friendlies rather than parallel with them, to avoid misidentifying your troops as the targets.
>>64476800>They have come up with tactics and procedures to minimize it.clearly it isn't good enough
helicopters are big, loud, fly low and slow. they're easy to shoot. 4 helicopters were shot down during gothic serpent, many others were damaged.
>>64479350Look at that chad kidIs there a "chad" for femalesIt's not Stacey
>>64475587Helos are vulnerable to any ground fire. They learned this in Vietnam, unless you 100% control the area leading up to and around the LZ the risk of someone shooting something at you is non-zero. Never underestimate your enemy who as access to RPGs. Complacency kills.
