HirooOnoda Wrote:Meeting heavy fire from small arms and shoulder-mounted rocket-propelled grenades, the Apaches flew back to base, 30 of them shot up, several disablingly so. One helicopter was shot down in the encounter, and its two crewmen were taken prisoner.
Seems like the damage to the Apaches was due to small arms fire and RPG's instead of SAM's and AAA. As I stated earlier, the helicopter pilots I knew were more concerned about the ZSU and machineguns instead of the SAM's. Therefore, maybe the need is for a higher AA value in the combat units.
Regards,
CptCav
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