Video: SAM Fired at Helictoper - Flares Destroy SAM

[snakedog]

http://www.apacheclips.com/boards/vbtube/upload/thumb/674_43023.jpg (http://www.apacheclips.com/boards/vbtube_show.php?tubeid=3862) Countermeasures deployed and destroyed the missile before it had a chance to hit the heli.http://www.apacheclips.com/boards/vbtube/images/play_thread.png (http://www.apacheclips.com/boards/vbtube_show.php?tubeid=3862)

[snakedog]

FAIL! :fu: :evilgrin:

[jeweetzelluf]

So does the helicopter register it locking on in the beginning or only when it fires?

[gutro]

For some reason I could only picture him hitting power line tower right in front of him lol

[rayjen02]

Unless the missile system is IR laser designated, and this one is not, the missile passively locks on to the exhaust of the helicopter. There is a countermeasure system which uses radar to register a rapidly approaching object. If no radar warning is present at the time, the helicopter system automatically launches flares. Not sure if the aircraft in the video has this system, or if the crew just had their head on a swivel.

[powerpack]

Now this is a kind of vid I have never seen before.
Thanks for the post, super interesting stuff comming out of there

[deer_hunter]

Not sure that this one (looks like Mi-8 or Mi-17) had some sophisticated defense system with SAM detection capability. Usually those birds have simple radar detectors (useless against IR guided SAMs) and flare dispensers with manual control. Probably crew was warned from the ground or from other bird.

[Rhntz]

Looks like a soviet strela or Igla

[gas57]

The cameraman is shaking worse than a thyrotoxic woodpecker with Parkinson's Disease during a snow storm!!!

[Clodius]

So does the helicopter register it locking on in the beginning or only when it fires?
I believe the alarm goes off with beeps when they're getting "painted", then a solid tone upon lock on.

[serpa6]

you could hear barley that the system had was picking up the heat from the exhaust then a lock on with the beep the heli had to have had early detection and seen the launch and shot the flares that was a close one what about another 100 feet the heli would have taken a direct hit

[EXCONservative]

Yeah, that was one lucky crew onboard.

[Chr36]

Cool video, thx.

[lucas503]

alahu ackbar, nothing happen you fucking terrorists