PLA Helicopter Air Assault Battalion

[Lankan Ranger]

PLA Helicopter Air Assault Battalion

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China Defense Blog: First LH helicopter-to-helicopter, Red-vs-Blue, air combat exercise

 

[mDumb]

Sh*t that's a lot of TY-90 missiles for a medium helicopter to carry.

It seems this battalion exists primarily to destroy enemy's helicopters it's not for ground fighting. I don't see anti tank missile or cannon.

 

[applesauce]

Sh*t that's a lot of TY-90 missiles for a medium helicopter to carry.

It seems this battalion exists primarily to destroy enemy's helicopters it's not for ground fighting. I don't see anti tank missile or cannon.

wonder if they'll put hj-10s on there too

 

[Jazzbot]

awesome pics..

 

[mDumb]

<wonder if they'll put hj-10s on there too>

Dude, HJ-10 is an anti tank missile. As I mentioned earlier this division is not a ground fighting division (unless its mission is changed).

If China decides to take military action against Taiwan this division would be responsible to take take down Taiwan's helicopters (AH-64, AH-1, etc.).

 

[no_name]

My guess is that they will perform combat mission along side WZ-10. While the WZ-10 will be flying low and engaging armoured units the WZ-9 will be hovering above them to watch out for enemy choppers

 

[mDumb]

<My guess is that they will perform combat mission along side WZ-10. While the WZ-10 will be flying low and engaging armoured units the WZ-9 will be hovering above them to watch out for enemy choppers>

Interesting deployment of the two helicopters. Sh*t that would be heavy helicopter traffic (just like traffic in Taipei). So, wouldn't this increase the probability of friendly collisions?

 

[no_name]

Well when I mean above its like a few houndred meters above.

So they have an overview of the battle environment and can have some sort of look down shoot down capability