Originally Posted by
ShyTorque
Nor would we rotary chaps. Our job was to fly the anti-tank missile crews directly to their firing positions as the "WP main thrust" got going.
The Soviets built Hind anti-helicopter helicopters (and then the fixed wing "Frogfoot") especially for us. We just had a GMPG in the door - not a lot of use when the crewman couldn't open the door to use it. I had a 9mm which I think was to top myself with if I didn't get killed outright in the crash.
I reckon we'd have all gone within a day.
Just as well then that the Hinds of the East German airforce were mostly U/S, if not engineless, and their conscript GC's pissed on cheap vodka half the time. This from an ex Hind pilot friend who transferred to the Luftwaffe post unification. Their weekly intelligence briefs stated that the NATO hoards were about to advance Eastwards without warning. A political game in which both sides were mightily conned.