Is Helo crew training meeting today's demands? Operation Enduring Freedom has seen most fixed-wing aircraft deployed to combat areas only at heights judged to be beyond the range of surface-to-air missiles. Helicopters however can only avoid enemy weapons by their crew's skill in making use of the terrain. Should that fail, only decoys may prevent loss or damage.

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Is Helo crew training meeting today's demands? Operation Enduring Freedom has seen most fixed-wing aircraft deployed to combat areas only at heights judged to be beyond the range of surface-to-air missiles. Helicopters however can only avoid enemy weapons by their crew's skill in making use of the terrain. Should that fail, only decoys may prevent loss or damage.

Thus losses to ground fire over Afghanistan have been confined to helicopters; including two MH-47E Chinooks destroyed and three more severely damaged. During US Army deployment of AH-64A Apaches to Albania in 1999, the risks of exposing such valuable assets to enemy fire led commanders to insist that their crews undert...

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