Rewatching Blood Diamond and the helicopter scene is fricking suck. One gunship just swoops in and rapes the whole camp like it doesn't surf. My question is how realistic this depiction is of a single gunship like that? After seeing footage from Russian hinds in Ukraine, it seems a bit over the top in comparison. On the other hand it's a Super Hind, which is a South African updated Hind, so while I figure Hollywood likely wanted a spectacle beyond what can realistically be expected, it did make me wonder how much better a job the South Africans could potentially have done than the Russians.
Meant to say fricking sick.
>After seeing footage from Russian hinds in Ukraine, it seems a bit over the top in comparison.
The russian's have to boom and zoom because of how many MANPADs there are on the ground, if they could hang around and loiter it would be more like this.
Probably not quite this over the top, but more like this.
Good movie though.
There are stories of this kind of absolute rape from the Rhodesian bush war, airborne Rhodies inflicted some ridiculous damage from helicopters a few times
The unrealistic part is that the Hind could have done all that from 1-2km range
>Rhodies
The best K-car gunners prided themselves on being able to kill a terrorist with only 2 or 3 rounds of 20mm. They were taught to conserve ammo as it was relatively expensive.
They copied it from Resident Evil 4.
Shit like this could definitely happen in africa, but anywhere where MANPADS or other AA systems are common this would be excessively dangerous.
>sub-80 iq africans just standing around in the open, only rifles sprayed wildly
>no cover, only buildings are made out of tin and matchsticks
>experienced sadf pilot, EO troops been doing this same shit since the border war
They wouldn't have done much different to the Russians against Ukraine. Peer wars are a different kind of war to what was done in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
>has to mention his obsession in an unrelated thread
read the op, seething brainlet. actually read it, not skim.
>Rewatching Blood Diamond and the helicopter scene is fricking suck.
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Dude, ukraine is a peer-on-peer mechanized warzone, that area is fricking saturated with manpads and worse. When it's just a gunship vs some Black folk in the jungle, the gunship will absolutely dominate if flown by anything other than a Black person
Yeah if your enemy has nothing but small arms they can barely aim a gunship can be incredibly effective.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireforce
South African mercenaries fricked up the RUF in real life. It really was a turkey shoot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone_Civil_War#Executive_Outcomes
Without reading the wiki it was something like 150 mercenaries held off a force of 15,000. They also had a gunship.
i remember a very interesting greentext regarding this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neall_Ellis
i hope somebody can dig up a nice short tl;dr on his life and "body of work".
all i remember is the he was some sort of rhodesian helo pilot that went on to become a mercenary and liked to fly his mi-24 and cap copious ammounts of kaffirs with it during several conflicts
Read the story of Neal Ellis, it's actually pretty close to what he used to do.
https://www.amazon.com/Gunship-Ace-Neall-Helicopter-Mercenary/dp/1612000703
>how realistic this depiction is of a single gunship like that?
this scene was clearly based on Neall Ellis, and it was spot on.
>Neall Ellis
>is how realistic this depiction is of a single gunship like that?
Bretty good but the explosions would be more like shockwaves, not lighting bags of gasoline that just go up.