Matthew......set back and cup yer mitts around a cup of tea and just think for a few minutes please.
Do you for one second think the Muj aim at the gunner or the helicopter?
We had this argument one time in a land far away about having anything but Olive Drab flight helmets. There were those that said the Bad Guys would now have an aiming point in the cockpit instead of just aiming at the glass and plastic parts of the helicopter nose.
When Muj pops an RPG at a Chinook, 53, 22 or a Humvee....he is aiming at the vehicle and not the guys.
If you are close enough....as setting on the ground or very close to the ground and slow....they are still aiming at the big bit and not just between a pair of blue eyes.
Last time I had it done to me....when folks pop off rounds at you with an automatic weapon they went for the Full Monte and might as well had a water hose for all the single aiming they were doing.
This BAE concept is the best answer to a bad question perhaps.....but as in the mortar wagon the USMC spent Billions on......it is putting a band aid over a cancer.
These 22's get a lot of praise from the Marines....but we don't see them in Afghanistan doing the work of the Chinooks and 53's. They may have their uses in Spec Ops but as a mainstay replacement for the 46 they are a miserable failure.