Showing posts with label helicopter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label helicopter. Show all posts
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Taliban on motorcycles no match for Apache helicopters
I love these kinds of stories...Idaho Statesman
FORWARD OPERATING BASE NAWBAHAR, Afghanistan — The Taliban had set a trap for the tiny company of Afghan soldiers here, its handful of U.S. mentors and the American helicopters that they expected would rush in help.Read it all.
Firing mortars to lure the Americans and Afghans out of their mud-straw base, the motorcycle-borne Taliban headed toward a nearby ravine. Dozens of insurgents with light machine guns, a recoilless rifle and four trucks bearing three anti-aircraft guns and a heavy machine gun were set up in a classic ambush from high ground.
U.S. and Afghan troops didn't take the bait, however, and instead waited in a village near the base for air cover. It arrived more quickly than the Taliban expected. Firing Hellfire missiles and 30 mm cannons, the pilots of two Apache helicopters made so many passes that they lost track and nearly ran out of ammunition. Afghan and U.S. ground troops then moved in to kill more.
Monday, October 26, 2009
14 American soldiers die in helicopter crashes in Afghanistan
At least 14 American soldiers have died in 2 separate helicopter crashes in Afghanistan. The helicopters were not shot down by the taliban. New York Times
KABUL — Fourteen Americans were killed in Afghanistan on Monday in two separate incidents involving helicopters.
Seven American soldiers and three civilians were killed in a helicopter crash in western Afghanistan, military officials said, and in southern Afghanistan, the midair collision of two coalition helicopters resulted in the deaths of four U.S. soldiers. A spokeswoman said gunfire from insurgents was not to blame for the collision.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Hizbollah "Accidentily" Shoots at Lebanese Helicopter
You know it's bad in Lebanon when the newspapers will make excuses for Hizbollah. Internation Herald Tribune
A top Lebanese newspaper citing "multiple sources" says that the militant Hezbollah group mistakenly fired at an army helicopter a day earlier, killing an officer.
The pro-Syrian Al-Safir daily says the gunmen mistook the helicopter for an Israeli aircraft dropping off soldiers in the south of the country and opened fire, killing the navigator.
The paper often receives leaked information from the Shiite militant group.
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