Comments by "Reecom98" (@reecom9884) on "Russian Ka 52 choppers combat mission to 'protect Donbas'" video.

  1. The Ka-52 has no defense against the UK’s Starstreak MANPADS given to the Ukrainians. There is a video of the Starstreak cutting the Mi-28 in half, cutting off the tail section.
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  2. Western heads up display data is shown to the pilot when to pull up and a count down when to fire the unguided missile or release bombs from the onboard computer. The Western heads up display shows a line to the target release point generated by the onboard ballistics computer; it comes in handy when you are dodging missiles and to get quickly back on target. The Ka-52 doesn’t appear to have a modern bombing ballistic computer. The heads up display was a very primitive display; the pilot had to guess when to fire.
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  3.  @vladoleshko6741  My mistake, corrected.
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  4.  @1032ramos  My mistake, corrected.
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  5.  @squidysnose69  There has been ten AH-64 Apache shot down by MANPADS in the twenty year conflict in Afghanistan. The Ukrainian military is claiming they shot down 137 Russian helicopters, the total hasn’t been independently verified, but there are numerous videos of Russian helicopters shown destroyed on the ground or being shot down. There have not been any reports of an AH-64 Apache shot down by gun fire or RPG.
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  6.  @kek207  There has been ten AH-64 Apache shot down by MANPADS in the twenty year conflict in Afghanistan. The Ukrainian military is claiming they shot down 137 Russian helicopters, the total hasn’t been independently verified, but there are numerous videos of Russian helicopters shown destroyed on the ground or being shot down.
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  7.  @squidysnose69  The Iraqis in the 1991 war had the best Russian SAMs and MANPADS they had brought from Russia using their oil money.
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  8. The Russians are so afraid of UK’s Starstreak MANPADS they are practicing flying at treetop level and then pulling up and lobbing their missiles like artillery fire instead of targeting ground targets to stay out of reach of Starstreak; this lobbing their missiles is highly inaccurate.
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