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Old 27th Feb 2006, 18:27
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One of the Pumas engaged by the SHars near Shag Cove crashed during evasion, it was later discovered to be overloaded with mortar rounds, IIRC the other 2 Pumas & A109 landed on and were promptly shot up. During GW1 a Hip was shot down by repeated gun attacks from a section of A10s (now that's just not nice), F15s used an LGB on a Hind as the kinetic range of the LGB outranged the Sidewinder. Of interest, both these kills were as a result of AWACS vectoring. During the Iran/Iraq war some particularly unsporting kills occurred, including Pheonix v Super Frelon and even Maverick v Super Frelon (it was sat on an oil platform at the time). Moral of the story, don't fly a Super Frelon! The Iranians claimed a number of MiG-21s shot down by Sea Cobra cannon fire and the Iraqis claimed, amongst others, an F4 shot down by a Sagger(!) fired by a Hind. When you actually start digging you find out that a lot of this stuff has gone on over the years; it's not just fun to do!!
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