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A lucky shot or two would end all this shit.

Okay, story time.

A million years ago in 2005, when I was a young and studly Blackhawk Crewchief in the deserts of Iraq, we were flying a sniper support mission with some “other government activities “ guys later in the day. I’m out preflighting my aircraft when one of these guys who was younger than me and waaay outranked even my crotchety old pilots somehow, came back to the tail section that I was climbing on, at the time, I guess to just shoot the shit.

This fucker brazenly asks me “So if I wanted to shoot this thing down, what would be the best way to go about doing that?”

Mildly miffed, so to speak, I said something to the effect of “I don’t think I want to tell you that.” There may have been a few motherfuckers and some other colorful language sprinkled in there. His boss, an even higher ranking but more respectable dude came along to find out what the noise was about.

He eventually explained to me that his little underling wasn’t specifically referring to my helicopter or even a Blackhawk at all, just to get a crew chief’s perspective on a helicopter’s vulnerabilities. At which point he assumed it would be a tail rotor.

I told him maybe that’s true for a lot of helicopters, but for an Blackhawk, over a certain airspeed the tail rotor is no longer a vulnerable point. But what IS true, for all helicopters, regardless of type, is that their most vulnerable spots are the two, and sometimes only one, pink squishy things in the front.

It took him a second to get what I meant, but eventually he figured it out. I flew with that guy a couple more times. MOST of their team was fun dudes. And I never had to have the young guy on my aircraft.

I say all that to say this, for any of you guys, a government Blackhawk, Chinook, whatever. .308 will punch through the skin, glass, or plexiglass on any of these aircraft. It’ll get through the soft body armor, and the flight helmets are just that, NOT ballistic helmets. The crew do wear plates but only a trauma plate on the torso to allow for limb movement. They are not currently authorized to fly over US soil with guns. Mounted, personal, or otherwise, and a HUGE change will have to take place to allow that. The only ones that are, are aircraft where the guns are integral like an Apache. Even then they’re not loaded.

Do with all of that information what you will. I loved my old job, but I hate tyrants exponentially more.

I love these dumb comments. As if you would shoot at it if you were there.

Nobody. Has. The. Balls.

Except the citizens are all fat, Ghey and retarded.

Only just?

That’s a very good point. They react like the old elephant and mouse. BUUUUUT if you decide to do the laser thing, they can quickly hit target store on the GPS, and they’ll be able to find exactly where you were.

And even if you hide, your neighbors will turn you in for good boy points.

Well, nothing will be done about it.

Nobody has the balls.