Dave Krall CFII
Final Approach
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Dave Krall CFII SEL SES, Cmcl HELI
If it's true...
Watched again on the Military Channel re-enactment where a big chopper load of our troops crashed and were getting shot up real bad below the top of a hill containing an Al Queda machine gun bunker. They actually made a head on assault with no real gains and called in air strikes which materialized in the form of a pair of F16s an a pair of Hornets, I think. All jets loaded to the hilt, and still neither repeated gun strafing or even 500# bombs got the bunker.
One fighter jock begged off on trying another strike to the machine gun nest with our guys only ~75 meters away saying, "I'm flying at 450 knots, trying to hit the tarket..." (paraphrase). All jets went home and things did not look very good at all with many dead & wounded and retreat as difficult as advance, and more distant Al Queda coming up the mountain.
A CIA Predator UAV shows up at a blistering ~130 knots or something like that, with its camera and its single Hellfire missile, and takes out the bunker clean and for good with one shot.
Watched again on the Military Channel re-enactment where a big chopper load of our troops crashed and were getting shot up real bad below the top of a hill containing an Al Queda machine gun bunker. They actually made a head on assault with no real gains and called in air strikes which materialized in the form of a pair of F16s an a pair of Hornets, I think. All jets loaded to the hilt, and still neither repeated gun strafing or even 500# bombs got the bunker.
One fighter jock begged off on trying another strike to the machine gun nest with our guys only ~75 meters away saying, "I'm flying at 450 knots, trying to hit the tarket..." (paraphrase). All jets went home and things did not look very good at all with many dead & wounded and retreat as difficult as advance, and more distant Al Queda coming up the mountain.
A CIA Predator UAV shows up at a blistering ~130 knots or something like that, with its camera and its single Hellfire missile, and takes out the bunker clean and for good with one shot.