I was curious how many Apaches were shot down in Iraq and it turns out it was 15.
Also, an additional 19 were lost to accidents/crashes.
Maybe I’m just naive but it was surprising to me that more were lost to accidents than to enemy fire.
antibannannaman on
MANPAD’s are a helicopters worst adversary since they are portable devices that give little to no warning and aren’t easily identifiable from the ground, Ramadi and Baghdad were a shit show for Aviation assets during that time. RIP to the crews.
DangerousChipmunk335 on
The official status was US lost no abrams, tanks, helis during this tour.
Kinda surprising that’s the opposite.
bobvdvalk on
Oh no my sweet baby
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I was curious how many Apaches were shot down in Iraq and it turns out it was 15.
Also, an additional 19 were lost to accidents/crashes.
Maybe I’m just naive but it was surprising to me that more were lost to accidents than to enemy fire.
MANPAD’s are a helicopters worst adversary since they are portable devices that give little to no warning and aren’t easily identifiable from the ground, Ramadi and Baghdad were a shit show for Aviation assets during that time. RIP to the crews.
The official status was US lost no abrams, tanks, helis during this tour.
Kinda surprising that’s the opposite.
Oh no my sweet baby