The Use Of Anti-Tank Guided Missiles Against Helicopters Didn’t Start In Ukraine
A viral video of Ukrainians shooting down a KA-52 attack helicopter with an anti-tank missile doesn’t depict a new tactic.
A viral video of Ukrainians shooting down a KA-52 attack helicopter with an anti-tank missile doesn’t depict a new tactic.
The “Black Jet” never got the ability to shoot down other aircraft, but not due to a lack of creativity on behalf of the Skunk Works team.
The Su-25 Frogfoot isn’t much of an air-to-air fighter, but its Vikhr anti-tank missiles can ruin another aircraft’s day under the right circumstances. In this case, the Russian missile’s high-explosive anti-tank warhead ends the bomber’s life quite spectacularly.
A lot had to of gone wrong to get us to this point and not just with a surface to air missile battery.
U.S. President Donald Trump says American forces were “cocked and loaded” to strike targets in Iran overnight, but that he called off the operation because he felt estimates that there would be approximately 150 Iranian casualties was not a proportional response to the loss of an unmanned aircraft. This comes as Iran, which admits to shooting down the U.S. Navy RQ-4A Broad Area Maritime Surveillance-Demonstrator drone, or BAMS-D, says it refrained from destroying a manned aircraft that it claims violated its airspace around the same time.
The U.S. is building its case against Iran as it works to reach an “international consensus” that the hardline IRGC was behind the operation.
The constellation of orbital sensors can detect infrared events such as missile launches, artillery fire, and planes exploding in the sky.
The amount of garbage commentary and skewed analysis on the whole shoot down has been unbelievable. Here’s the reality, like it or not.
The shootdown comes soon after Israeli forces tried to knock out Syrian missiles that appeared to be headed for the country.
Talk about a close-in guns kill!