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DIDiMISSsomethin t1_jeb0swt wrote

Reply to comment by C-c-c-comboBreaker17 in 2 Blackhawk helicopters with 101st Airborne Division crash, status of crew members unknown | CNN by 5xad0w

In the US, yeah, but we've been at war for most of the past century and have 600 military bases overseas.

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C-c-c-comboBreaker17 t1_jeb0z7c wrote

And most of those wars have been against insurgents and guerillas without major anti-aircraft power.

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DIDiMISSsomethin t1_jebl06w wrote

To be fair, the domestic routine exercises that are crashing don't have those either

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C-c-c-comboBreaker17 t1_jed8r64 wrote

Transport helicopters are dangerous. Fly a lot of helicopters and have them do dangerous maneuvers and eventually you'll have a crash. In an actual war you expect to lose helicopters basically constantly. They're buses for the troops, and they're not meant to be particularly survivable.

Hell, we expected to lose basically every A-10 warthog in minutes if the US went to war with the Soviet Union. And helicopters are slower, fly lower, and they're more fragile.

Of course, none of that would've mattered. The idea was that the conventional war would probably only last until the nukes started to fall.

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