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GGTharos · 07-13-2007, 20:14 PM

A Mi-8 ... I think it is the same incident I refer to. They picked it up on the A2A radar sweep 50nm out, saw it was on the ground, slaved the FLIR pod to radar target (the radar never left A2A mode!) and they dropped a bomb on it once they could positively ID it, as I recall.

07-13-2007, 20:14 PM	#16 (permalink)
GGTharos Contributor Join Date: 10-06-06 Posts: 357	A Mi-8 ... I think it is the same incident I refer to. They picked it up on the A2A radar sweep 50nm out, saw it was on the ground, slaved the FLIR pod to radar target (the radar never left A2A mode!) and they dropped a bomb on it once they could positively ID it, as I recall.