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More importantly there was no use to the equipment. South Vietnam fell. There is no where for this equipment to go.
by infecto 8y ago
More importantly there was no use to the equipment. South Vietnam fell. There is no where for this equipment to go.
- netsharc 8y agoThis is an odd logic, isn't it? The country that owned the chopper practically ceased to exist, it doesn't mean the equipment is no good...
- slededit 8y agoEquipment doesn’t exist in a vacuum. There must be a supply chain to maintain it.
- nerfhammer 8y ago... it was just US equipment with a different coat of paint
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- xvf22 8y agoNo time to do a full check over equipment which by the end of the war may have been maintained to the bare minimum if not worse.
- theoh 8y agoWhat do you think they stripped before dumping the aircraft? Is there modular, compact stuff like radios? Or what? No time to remove an engine, presumably, even if that was something that could happen fairly routinely during maintenance.
- cafard 8y agoThere was a period in the late 1970s when North Vietnam was undercutting the US in supplying parts & replacements to some Latin American countries, I recall.
- ams6110 8y agoThat and risk. They probably had no way of knowing what mechanical condition some of those helicopters were in, and to have half a dozen or more helos hovering around the carrier would be half a dozen potential emergencies that would have to be dealt with in the midst of an already complicated situation.
- gsnedders 8y agoAnd then you also risk the lives of all of the crew members.