Originally Posted by
MoosePileit
If you gotta ask you've been on a desk too long surfing this website instead of hanging out in the vault. Better yet wearing desert tan's and riding shotgun in the current unpleasantness.
Thanks, brother, I've logged more than my share of O1 time and wearing deserts/PT gear this year.
Still trying to figure out "the heart of" what "WEZ" or "MEZ" or anything remotely dangerous in the anti-aircraft realm has been going on for USAF aircraft since the big push in Iraq in '03.
Some helos have obviously been vulnerable, and we know of the Marine phrog that was shot down by a MANPAD last year. I know of a Hook that was shot down while I was at Bagram this summer, too.
Other than that...we're pretty much just talking small arms and RPGs. There are MANPADs out there, obviously, but they're not exactly swarming the skies.