couldn't tell the difference between a Mil-24 Hind and an S-67 Blackhawk
To be strictly correct that should be
Mi-24 as well
.
However, I would suggest that Beags is hinting, tongue in cheek, about a matter that has been of more serious concern over many years.
P.S.
Years ago in RAFG , when talking to a then still serving member of the former opposition , he confided that he had survived being shot down three times during the second great misunderstanding:
"Including once by the enemy".