Author Topic: whats with this 'shot down' helicopter ??? (Read 621 times)

Wobble · « **on:** October 22, 2001, 02:07:00 PM »

Im sitting here watching the 'news' and apparentley the Talebarf has claimed it shot down a US helicopter last night... you can see taleban soldiers showing off some small pieces of 'wreckage' of a halicopter.. but they refuse to show anyone the crash site or the "12 or more" dead soldiers that were in it..

this strikes me as kinda odd.. you would think that seeing as how they are getting their tulips handed to them so badley and how they are so itching to make and backup clames that they are killing US troops.. that they would be MORE than happy to show off the crash site.. the dead bodies.. everything.. but insted all I see are a few guys waving around a few shards of metal.. and something that looks like a wheel

sorta fishy if ya ask me..

Eagler · « **Reply #1 on:** October 22, 2001, 02:23:00 PM »

they are trying to figure out a way to attach the wheels to their camel. Nothing to worry about ...

Udie · « **Reply #2 on:** October 22, 2001, 02:25:00 PM »

Didn't they say last week we'd see them drag our dead bodies through the streets like in Somalia?

I could believe maybe they hit it and it's the one that crashed in Pakistan, but if it went down there we'd have known about it within minutes I bet.

We're going to get filled with so much propoganda durring this thing, it will probobly be best not to watch the damned news.

easymo · « **Reply #3 on:** October 22, 2001, 02:34:00 PM »

Someone should explain. The wheels go under the camel. Not on top.

eskimo2 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 22, 2001, 02:40:00 PM »

I heard they shot it down with a 2/3 scale P-51...

eskimo

Dowding · « **Reply #5 on:** October 22, 2001, 04:39:00 PM »

lol eskimo. Nice one.

easymo · « **Reply #6 on:** October 22, 2001, 05:28:00 PM »

I don't want to hear anymore of that camel jockey stuff. Its camel pilot.

Animal · « **Reply #7 on:** October 22, 2001, 05:35:00 PM »

lol eskimo, behave!

miko2d · « **Reply #8 on:** October 23, 2001, 04:00:00 PM »

Well, they were shooting or at least armed, the aircraft crashed and they were the closest enemy guys around. So it is a valid proximity kill...

miko

Raubvogel · « **Reply #9 on:** October 23, 2001, 04:47:00 PM »

I read today that one of our helos did return to base minus 2 of its landing gear. Sounds like a Ch-47 sheared off 2 of its gear and the Taliban found them.

john9001 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 23, 2001, 10:24:00 PM »

the taliban suffer 'lag' and shoot rubber bullets, the taliban guns are not modeled right, they should be more deadly, omar bin omar said he put 200 20mm hits on that chopper and never got a kill msg, CH47 are over modeled , the CH47 damage model is not right, pryo can you fix this or i will quit

LtHans · « **Reply #11 on:** October 24, 2001, 02:44:00 AM »

Besides the kidding around, here was my predictions.

The Taliban DO have parts of a US helicopter. They showed the metal tags and printed words on them. Boeing and Pennsylvania. They're not Russian. It is not a hoax.

The Taliban didn't show anything else.

Ergo, multiple deductions can be made.

1. They did shoot down a helicopter and our government is lying to us. The lack of dead bodies and the rest of the helicopter is odd though.

2. They scrounged up some parts of a US helicopter, threw them on the ground, brought in the press (Al Jazerra), and staged a fake shoot down for morale building amoung Taliban forces. I doubt any US aircraft hardware has ever been used in Afganistan before, so I find it unlikely this happened. Still, it is not impossible.

3. A US helicopter clipped something, a wall or building shearing off its undercariage, but successfully returned home and landed on it's belly without using wheels.

I personnally thought it was #3 myself, and now Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld is saying the same thing.

The only thing I have to say to the Taliban is, "So what? Even if you can shoot down our helicopters, and you didn't this time, we're still comming for you."

Hans.

Wobble · « **Reply #12 on:** October 24, 2001, 04:53:00 AM »

I doubt any US aircraft hardware has ever been used in Afganistan before, so I find it unlikely this happened.

On CNN they said there have been US made helicopters in the area for YEARS, used both by Isreal military and gov.

weazel · « **Reply #13 on:** October 24, 2001, 07:16:00 AM »

The Pentagon reported last night after the Rangers completed their assault the CH-47 lifted off shearing the gear off on a low stone wall.

LtHans · « **Reply #14 on:** October 25, 2001, 05:47:00 AM »

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On CNN they said there have been US made helicopters in the area for YEARS, used both by Isreal military and gov.

In Afganistan? Israeli?

I don't get what your trying to say? Yes, I know the Israelis use US military equipment and alot of if. I don't understand how you can link the aircraft parts in Afganistan to Israel? You do realise how far apart Israel and Afganistan are on a map, right?

Moot point. As I said though, it is landing gear sheared off a Chinook. I guessed that and I was right.

Hans.