Esta resposta foi postada pelo Fitz, no fórum do Black Shark. Os negritos são meus.
Sorry for the long delay. I was just wondering because I am currently flying about ninety hours a month in Iraq in the little helicopter that “can be shot down with a BB gun” and would disagree with your opinion. Any aircraft can be taken down with a well placed bullet. The reason you see more OH-58D accidents is due to us hanging it out for the ground guys. Getting close to the fight. Using M-4′s to “deal with” insurgents. How many pilots of other airframes do you see engaging with M-4′s? I would venture to say none, with maybe some exceptions in the Spec Ops community. Let me tell you, the KW can take a quite a beating and still make it home.
Os pilotos do OH-58D realmente atiram de fuzil enquanto estão em vôo. Isso já apareceu num vídeo que postei aqui há algum tempo (o vídeo é de exercício e não de combate real).
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This is true--they do use the M-4s to shoot out of the cockpit. One OH-58 pilot could not raise the infantry unit on the radio, so he put a message in a water bottle (with the right frequency) and dropped it about 30 feet from the infantry unit. Those guys fly no-kidding low.
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