Why Would the US Army Purchase Russian Helicopters? #shorts
Was the Russian Mi-17 so advanced that the US Army decided to buy 10s of them over the past decade? It’s #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT #shorts
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We also use them for training in the US so the scenarios are more authentic.
@Thanh Tran the US military would not send its pilots to a school to learn how to fly Russian planes. It’s not feasible, you’d have to have a whole unit of pilots and support. As soon as their rotation was done they’d have to go learn how to fly US aircraft, or vice versa. Let alone teaching the pilots and mechanics Russian. I guarantee they don’t fly Russian aircraft in any sort of permanent or frequent fashion. Op4 helicopters are civilian aircraft painted in enemy patterns. I know this from first hand experience. Again, not for training
4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron was a thing. They flew captured migs.
@Jeff operation Constant Peg. A USAF agressors and test squadron was trained and proficient in flying Russian aircraft. These pilots were taken and volunteered from standard squadrons and due to the limits of the Opfor aircraft they were highly experienced before joining the program. The program was officially discontinued, however captured enemy equipment is still used to train our soldiers and pilots, just not as often.
@Jeff No actually we DO have a history of test flying Russian aircraft.. why is that hard to believe? It’s always good to understand the opposition’s capabilities to the fullest and of course America, of all countries, has the funding and assets to do so. Love it or hate it the American Military Industrial Complex is the largest and most capable in the world. Think about all the public funding and capabilities that we are already well aware of, then think of all the countless SAP’s that have existed throughout the years and currently… the scale is ginormous, not talking about billions of dollars, but trillions.
@Jeff cough cough mig23 and 27 the us captured 20 of them
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But it’s not what you think
American Government: *buys Russian helicopters*
Also American Goverment: *ditches millions of dollar’s in American weapons and gear.*
thank you joe biren
@Danarogon Libtard here
Let’s go Brandon
Billions man billions
@Alberto Rodriguez well the cavemen were marching with most of that “destroyed” equipment few months back
I hope I get rich some day so I can get a private island and go get a bunch of left over us military gear and stock up the island
Calling Something more capable than the Mi-8 series is a contradiction, that thing is the definition of multi purpose.
((Yes, I know, for specific tasks there might be better things but the Mi 17 is versatile as far as it gets))
And also a lot cheaper and faster to repair than American ones
Blackhawk is much cheaper (at least for the UH-60L variant), costing $6 million per unit.
Mi-17 costs about $16 million per unit
if we compare it to the Chinook, Chinook can carry about twice the payload or personnel, but it costs at least $60 million per unit.
@Henry Hamilton also the Chinook can’t act as a fully capable attack helicopter
@Swordsman black hawk is literally designed just for soldiers. Chinook is the heavy lift helicopter.
@Henry Hamilton are you sure about that? Fresh Mi-117 from the factory costs about $3 million dollars per unit. If US payd $16 million, then Russians and some top US military personnel got a good deal.
“And there was equipment left behind”
*MASSIVE* *UNDERSTATEMENT*
Yup. Big arsenals worth millions of $ were left behind. Vehicle fleets, worth millions were left behind. I’ve heard that they also left behind some choppers. Pretty stupid decision imho.
@Sreeram S Nair which most were scrambled and left beyond repair
But imagine they left bombs to detonate after months to cause panic lol just imagine
US: “That way, Taliban would be capturing Russian helicopters, not ours! Hehehe…”
World: “Bruh, you paid for that…”
US: “Jokes on you, my taxpayers did!”
Well you see a couple months before we pulled out, we gave them blackhawks and told them that if they wanted US backing they must use them instead, so having mechanics and pilots not trained on the much more complex American helicopters meant that in the last days their airforce was nonexistent
I can’t believe we ended up leaving some of our stuff there, you’d think the US military could get all that stuff out if it really wanted to, maybe it was more trouble than it’s worth.
“The russian helicopter is well siuted for the environment.”
Yeah the US just can not say that russians have a heli as good as americans (or better)
No doubt the choppers are good for heavy lift but they fall out of the skies like rocks. Every year about 10 crash all over the world. Last year alone the choppers have killed more servicemen than any other chopper. India, Kenya e.t.c
@Dallas Dandy actually in India it was due to bad weather most likely no the helicopter malfunctioning