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Helicopters all have a big unarmored target on top -- the rotor disk. Get a nice chunk of metal in there and they become falling armed rocks. You can't substan
by dsr_ 1y ago
Helicopters all have a big unarmored target on top -- the rotor disk. Get a nice chunk of metal in there and they become falling armed rocks.
You can't substantially armor a rotor; they are designed to survive approximately one hit by a 23mm round.
- holowoodman 1y agoA 23mm round is the size of a banana. An AA missile such as a Stinger is intended to explode near the target, not necessarily making contact, and to produce shrapnel to create a large enough "kill zone" such that precision and contact are unneccesary. But that shrapnel will be smaller and slower than the 23mm round, so I'm not sure that a non-direct hit would suffice.