That why I mentioned it. Not one of the videos with a chopper going down did I see any flares going off. It seemed like I saw so much Iraqi war footage and choppers were throwing off flares like no tomorrow to throw off the missile tracking.
The first night I saw a ton of flares being used, but none since then. Guessing they ran out.
If the gunship was shot down with Starstreak flares won't work against it, this missile uses manual laser beam riding guidance, so it's not fire and forget but can't be spoofed by such countermeasures.
Depends if they get any warning about incoming missiles.
Depends on many things I guess, does the helicopter have a missile warning system capable of detecting a Starstreak missile flying at Mach 4 at that low altitude and can automatically deploy flares? Does it require that the pilot manually release them? I don't know enough to say.
I'd think they'd strategize this. You come in on runway 3 around 1PM, we'll be ready. If you try any hanky panky you get a missile up your wazoo and we get to see the fireworks. If you're a good boy, you're set for life and we get the fighter.
for that matter, Zelenskyy to Moscow. Would have to be a neutral site. I find it very hard to imagine a face to face between Putin and Zelenskyy, I doubt that will EVER happen. Putin's too much the irredeemable prick.
You mean the nuclear bunker under the Ural mountains...
Hey, if Donny was still in office, they could hang out in the basement of the Whitehouse together.
So far news in US seems to be refusing to cover these atrocities- perhaps waiting for independent verification, but lots of supporting proof already including independent press observing the collection of civilian corpses.
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