Video! Helicopter getting shot down!
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UglyCasanova
Lifer
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and why are there exclamation points. what's exciting about Helicopters getting shot down by terrorists?
uh, are u kidding me? why dont you go back to school and learn some grammar. exclamation points dont mean excitement. they are just punctuation zappers, and are used as a kind of visual scream.
Or an helicopter from a invading country being shot down by its citizens.
Of course, I guess it depends who your spinmaster is right?
I have seen this video before and I believe it was a Russian helicopter shot down by Chechen rebels....
I will see If I can get a link to support this..
I will see If I can get a link to support this..
Wow so poor quality, and i did not understand it landed or crashed, it was crashing really slow so i guess they just destroyed tail rotor.
To me, it looks like the first helicopter that passed was an Mi-8, and the one that got shot down was a Mi-24.
Looks like the pilot might have manuevered it down sicne it looked to stay upright on the decent....
Well god is great.....
The key is, were they wearing boxers or briefs, and WHAT KIND OF GOD WOULD ALLOW A CAMCORDER WITHOUT STEADYSHOT TO EXIST?!?!?!
Huh? Shooting down choppers is just an act of war, we've done it to plenty of other people, and they've done it to us. It's not like those were Red Cross rescue workers or anything.
Save the vindictiveness for real war crimes.
Obviously I don't like seeing our guys get killed (IF those are our guys), but if that makes the shooters animals, then what are we?
Originally posted by: MS Dawn
Well do they carry on like a donkey that got his pundee caught in an electric fence?
The only real enemy is war itself. Unfortunately it will never be defeated.
Well, if you're the underdog fighting off a much more powerful invader, you tend to get pretty excited when you manage to take down some of their heavy equipment (See, Half-Life IS educational).
Yeah, it sure would be nice if we could get over war...unfortunately, it will never happen. The most we can hope for is those who use force to use it surgically and humanely.
Printer Bandit
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interesting...
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Back story posted by Bill on 7/17/2006 11:09:37 AM
There is an interesting back-story on this one. During the 80?s the Regan administration was under increasing pressure to supply the Afghani mujahideen fighting the Russians with a means to take down Russian helicopters which were in most ways invulnerable to the small arms the mujahideen possessed.
Finally Regan broke down and sent Stingers to the Afghans, this despite many arguments that the weapons were too complex, too fragile etc (and of course the wisdom of those who understood the nightmare that would come later when trying to account for all of the unused munitions ? something we ended up paying millions to various ?terrorists? in a poorly organized buy back attempt years later).
This video was made for Regan and his staff as evidence of the weapons efficacy. What you don?t see in this edited version are the mujahideen descending down closer to the base and shooting the possible survivors of the crash.
The video marks an important milestone in the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Subsequent to this and other ?shoot-downs? of helicopters the Russian pilots changed strategies. no longer willing to fly slow and low shooting at donkey laden supply lines (another great story on that one some other time) and less able to support ground troops, etc etc etc further demoralizing both the ground and air troops.
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Back story posted by Bill on 7/17/2006 11:09:37 AM
There is an interesting back-story on this one. During the 80?s the Regan administration was under increasing pressure to supply the Afghani mujahideen fighting the Russians with a means to take down Russian helicopters which were in most ways invulnerable to the small arms the mujahideen possessed.
Finally Regan broke down and sent Stingers to the Afghans, this despite many arguments that the weapons were too complex, too fragile etc (and of course the wisdom of those who understood the nightmare that would come later when trying to account for all of the unused munitions ? something we ended up paying millions to various ?terrorists? in a poorly organized buy back attempt years later).
This video was made for Regan and his staff as evidence of the weapons efficacy. What you don?t see in this edited version are the mujahideen descending down closer to the base and shooting the possible survivors of the crash.
The video marks an important milestone in the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Subsequent to this and other ?shoot-downs? of helicopters the Russian pilots changed strategies. no longer willing to fly slow and low shooting at donkey laden supply lines (another great story on that one some other time) and less able to support ground troops, etc etc etc further demoralizing both the ground and air troops.
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