Reply To: Scarily effective military technology.

[McKinstry]

My son flew AH-64 D and E models including an Afghan deployment. He had a healthy respect for Russian systems and nape of the earth was the Apache’s friend when they practiced near peer conflict. Against the Taliban he never encountered a Manpad but did hit the odd 23mm and the 12.7 heavy mg but as they did most of their work at night and mostly used the 30mm cannon and rockets. By the time he got there most of the stupid insurgents had been eliminated in the Darwinian process of war and went to great lengths to be gone before the Apaches arrived. Failure to get out of Dodge quickly enough was usually fatal.

The tree of Life is self pruning.