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Post by hornet32 on Feb 14, 2014 22:12:04 GMT -5
February 14th 1968 around 2:30pm while attacking an enemy Rocket position in the Iron Triangle ship hornet 32 of the 116th ahc was hit several times forcing 32 to abort , 32 was able to stabilize long enough to reach the perimeter of a friendly unit .
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Post by Sir John on Feb 14, 2014 22:31:09 GMT -5
How much was the laundry bill?
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Post by Sir John on Feb 14, 2014 22:50:21 GMT -5
I have always felt that a 'Huey' at about 300 feet (100 yards) was VERY vulnerable to a couple of blokes with AK47s.
Sixty rounds from the scrub, and lots can go wrong with engines etc, and the pilot of course. You can hear a huey coming from miles away and have plenty of time to prepare.
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SJ
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Post by Swampy on Feb 14, 2014 23:02:25 GMT -5
Choppers are vulnerable to small arms fire, especially for their rotors.
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Post by hornet32 on Feb 14, 2014 23:53:59 GMT -5
In this case the rounds 5 hits came up from the bottom as we were dropping down to the LZ the fuel tank was hit it was self sealant the transmission is very venerable a round just one cut one of the transmission fluid supply lines , I noticed a reddish patch appearing on the sound proofing mat around the transmission housing and alerted the pilot he already knew from his gauge .
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Post by Swampy on Feb 15, 2014 0:31:03 GMT -5
Must have been terrifying.
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Post by hornet32 on Feb 15, 2014 10:23:08 GMT -5
We were to low to auto rotate ( disengage transmission free fall ) so the pilots ran up the collective ( petal to the metal ) to get us as far from the action as possible we had about a minute before the transmission froze up , not so much terrifying as acute awareness .
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