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Air Assault Helicopter of PA crashes in Harnai, martyring six

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إنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ

A second incident of this sort in the region. Apart from technical error, is there a likelihood that terrorists are equipped with new types of weapons?

You don't need sophisticated weapons.
All you need is an anti aircraft gun.

Helicopters have a weakness, as they are too slow, and fly too low to evade such fire.
At that altitude, even a lucky RPG shot would do that job.
 
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@Signalian , a great loss. But looks like PA is learning. Using Air assault for QRF
2 x officers are pilots and 1 x sepoy is heli mechanic. So 3 of them are PAA personnel.
1 x JCO, 1 X NCO and 1 x sepoy are SSG.

3 SSG personnel as QRF ? I don't know. Extraction maybe or training mission or medevac or sniping or flood related. I really dont know. Was any or all 3 of them wounded ? SSG operates in teams of 4 or 6. What was the extra equipment onboard ? were there relief goods ?

Based on above, you tell the mission profile ?
 
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2 x officers are pilots and 1 x sepoy is heli mechanic. So 3 of them are PAA personnel.
1 x JCO, 1 X NCO and 1 x sepoy are SSG.

3 SSG personnel as QRF ? I don't know. Extraction maybe or training mission or medevac. I really dont know. Was any or all 3 of them wounded ? SSG operates in teams of 4 or 6.

Based on above, you tell the mission profile ?
No it was an op to rescue two army personnel that were captured by terrorists.
I cannot confirm right now but time will tell.
 
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Afghan Talib had/have tech to shoot down Helicopters like Stingers Missiles.
And CIA gave them that tech.

These BLA/BLF have no such tech, they are claiming on twitter that they shot down, last time they said same.
 
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You don't need sophisticated weapons.
All you need is an anti aircraft gun.

Helicopters have a weakness, as they are too slow, and fly too low to evade such fire.
At that altitude, even a lucky RPG shot would do that job.
RPG and 12.7mm can bring the helicopter down easily if ambushed.
been done in Iraq, Afghanistan and FATA.
 
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إنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ
Please give priority for drone usage to avoid such sad incidents.
 
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