[BGB] What is shooting down our Helicopters in Iraq?

[DSeanBarnett at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/7/2007 12:38:40 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
tballou at comcast.net writes:

Well  today's Marine Sea Knight is number 5 in 2 weeks.  

I haven't  heard anything about what is shooting them down.  Have any of you  
guys?  

Per the BBC one witness said it was a missle that got the  46 today.  
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6338787.stm

Its  not the most stealthy (heat masked) nor armored helicopter in the  
inventory.  Was it just dropped by a lucky RPG shot, HMG fire or are they  using 
man portable SAMs?  

--Tom



I heard on the news that they think they are being taken down by  small arms 
(HMGs?), as they have adopted the tactic of flying very low to  prevent 
shoulder-fired SAMs from getting a bead on them.  Apparently there  are some Chinese 
and North Korean manufactured SAMs in Iraq that are good enough  to be a 
threat against our IR countermeasures.
 
Sean  
dseanbarnett at aol.com
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