I think few yrs back by RPG. That's only cobra lost with enemy fire .When did that happen?Details plz
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I think few yrs back by RPG. That's only cobra lost with enemy fire .When did that happen?Details plz
What happened to the crew? and air frame write-off?I think few yrs back by RPG. That's only cobra lost with enemy fire .
plz post the source .... I am not aware of any such incidentI think few yrs back by RPG. That's only cobra lost with enemy fire .
Read a @ifighter pilot tweet that T129 is taking part 23 March parade.
A low flying cobra was indeed lost to RPG fire in Tirah valley,the pilot and gunner both were KIA.Happened during the same operation when a brigadier got KIA right after disembarking from his vehicle.plz post the source .... I am not aware of any such incident
any publish report that will be helpfulA low flying cobra was indeed lost to RPG fire in Tirah valley,the pilot and gunner both were KIA.Happened during the same operation when a brigadier got KIA right after disembarking from his vehicle.
Its true! Happened back in 2010.any publish report that will be helpful
@DESERT FIGHTER @Signalian @Arsalan can any of you help about the above quoted incident as I am aware about only one lost that too due to the compressor stall which occurred in 2003 or 2005 (forgetting the year of this incident)
PESHAWAR/JAMRUD: Three Pakistan Army officials, including a brigadier and a major, were killed and two others sustained serious injuries in a military gunship chopper (Cobra) crash and an ambush on a rescue team that was proceeding towards the Tirah Valley in the troubled Khyber Agency to recover bodies and wreckage of the helicopter, reportedly shot down by suspected militants on Wednesday.
The choppers heavily shelled some suspected positions of the militants and disappeared for some time. Later, when the choppers reappeared and were seen bombing suspected militants’ hideouts in the mountainous territory, the militants opened fire at the two gunship choppers and finally shot down one of the helicopters in the forests near Nangrosa area, the native town of Mangal Bagh.
Several hours later after the chopper hit the ground, a rescue team of the Pakistan Army’s 40 Baloch Regiment was sent to the area in two helicopters to recover the bodies of the two slain officials — a pilot Major Muzaffar and a gunner, Havaldar Asim, and wreckage of the destroyed helicopter.
It seemed the militants were already aware of the arrival of rescue team, as they attacked the two helicopters soon after its members touched the ground.According to sources, Brigadier Hussain, Major Zia and Lieutenant Ansar sufferedserious injuries in the attack.
Brigadier Hussain, they said, later succumbed to his injuries while the two other officials were airlifted to a military hospital in Peshawar.
Crew was killed in the crash. A rescue party led by a brigadier from 40 Baloch Reg. went in to recover bodies from wreckage and was ambushed. We lost the brigadier in that ambush. If i remember correctly, he was from Gujranwala area and was posted in Mangla (had his family there) and was on operational deployment in Waziristan. Someone from my family was in Mangla those days and i remember getting some details from them when he was lost.What happened to the crew? and air frame write-off?
I think we have lost Cobras atleast on three different occasions.any publish report that will be helpful
@DESERT FIGHTER @Signalian @Arsalan can any of you help about the above quoted incident as I am aware about only one lost that too due to the compressor stall which occurred in 2003 or 2005 (forgetting the year of this incident)
Brigadier was lost to Sniper fire after the crash.Its true! Happened back in 2010.
Link: https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/669486
Also;
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/world/asia/11pstan.html
http://dunyanews.tv/en/Pakistan/21362-Brigadier-killed-in-rescue-operation-of-crashed-he
Both reporting same incident.
Crew was killed in the crash. A rescue party led by a brigadier from 40 Baloch Reg. went in to recover bodies from wreckage and was ambushed. We lost the brigadier in that ambush. If i remember correctly, he was from Gujranwala area and was posted in Mangla (had his family there) and was on operational deployment in Waziristan. Someone from my family was in Mangla those days and i remember getting some details from them when he was lost.
It was back when the operation was in full swing and those days saw the most intense fighting of the whole operation.
I think we have lost Cobras atleast on three different occasions.
awesome sight, these are sleek machines wish them in Pak army aviation and long term defense partnership with the Turks.Pakistan Day Parade