Whilst on the subject, it seems to me as an outside obsrever that modern attack helicopters are very vulnerable places to work on a batlefield.
My reasoning is the apparent reluctance of US to deploy Apache's to Balkans. If I recall after a long time of talk of soon deploying they never did get deployed. I assumed that up against a well equiped opposition (Serbia had modern anti air missiles, etc) it was a daunting prospect to send them and the Army brass decided against. Is this so?
This is not meant to be in any way anti or pro any service. It just seems to me they are a loverly weapon to have on your side so lond as you don't have to fly them against a first world opposition. Even in Iraq I got the impression more than expected fell to medium and large calibre automatic weopons in unsophisticated hands.