CDRMITTENSWhich ones of you had the "air-to-air kill of a crewed aircraft by an FPV drone" on your 2024 bingo card?
Vilianwould USA helicopters got shot down by the drone too?
A helicopter will crash if you just look at it wrong. I’m not quite sure why this is surprising to a lot of people.
Just because a helicopter can go faster than a drone, doesn’t mean it’s always going faster than a drone. The benefit of vertical take off is that you can land and pick up troops in dangerous areas.
More than likely this is the same scenario as whenever they shoot down one of ours with an RPG in Afghanistan. Got them right after touch down or take off, or got a lucky hit while they were flying low and slow.
A helicopter will crash if you just look at it wrong. I’m not quite sure why this is surprising to a lot of people.
People really don’t seem to understand how ridiculously flimsy helicopters can be. There’s a reason why they’re often called flying death traps by anyone who has to regularly be in one
Yup, and a second rotor just adds another way to die.
And making those rotors tilt adds many exciting ways to die
“We made our plane a helicopter so it works less.”
“It may be slow, but it’s dangerous to operate”
“It’s got VTOL! Well, STOL. And wear your seatbelt.”