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Did A Chinese Shoulder Launched Anti-Aircraft Missile Bring Down the Chinook Carrying Navy SEALs and Other Military Personnel?
August 16, 2011. 6:50 pm • Section: Defence Watch, News
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David Pugliese
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There’s been some talk that perhaps it wasn’t an RPG that brought down the U.S. military Chinook helicopter, killing 38 SEALs, U.S. personnel and Afghan SOF personnel.
The Financial Post is reporting this:
“US and allied intelligence in Afghanistan now fear that new Chinese-made shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles, particularly the FN-6 ‘Crossbow’, are reaching the Taliban forces via Pakistan or Iran.
These new portable missiles weigh only 16 kilograms and it has been rumoured that one was used to destroy the Chinook helicopter in Wardak province on August 5, killing all 38 aboard, including some 26 Navy Seals. It was the worst loss of life in a single incident for the US military in the 10 years of the Afghan war.
Washington and the US command in Afghanistan have kept quiet about what actually brought the helicopter down. All they have said is that the Taliban team that fired on the helicopter was destroyed later, and allowed rumours to run that a specially enhanced rocket-propelled grenade was responsible. If it was an RPG round, however much enhanced, it would have needed a very lucky shot to bring down a large machine like a Chinook.”
Did A Chinese Shoulder Launched Anti-Aircraft Missile Bring Down the Chinook Carrying Navy SEALs and Other Military Personnel?
August 16, 2011. 6:50 pm • Section: Defence Watch, News
Posted by:
David Pugliese
Recent Posts From This Author
There’s been some talk that perhaps it wasn’t an RPG that brought down the U.S. military Chinook helicopter, killing 38 SEALs, U.S. personnel and Afghan SOF personnel.
The Financial Post is reporting this:
“US and allied intelligence in Afghanistan now fear that new Chinese-made shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles, particularly the FN-6 ‘Crossbow’, are reaching the Taliban forces via Pakistan or Iran.
These new portable missiles weigh only 16 kilograms and it has been rumoured that one was used to destroy the Chinook helicopter in Wardak province on August 5, killing all 38 aboard, including some 26 Navy Seals. It was the worst loss of life in a single incident for the US military in the 10 years of the Afghan war.
Washington and the US command in Afghanistan have kept quiet about what actually brought the helicopter down. All they have said is that the Taliban team that fired on the helicopter was destroyed later, and allowed rumours to run that a specially enhanced rocket-propelled grenade was responsible. If it was an RPG round, however much enhanced, it would have needed a very lucky shot to bring down a large machine like a Chinook.”
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