How the US Stole a Soviet Helicopter in the Middle of the Night - Operation Mount Hope III
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Sometimes the best way to plan for and counter enemy technology is by directly accessing it. Piloting enemy aircraft, driving enemy vehicles, and dismantling them can give one nation a significant upper hand over another. Yet, accessing enemy technology can be incredibly challenging, unless it happens to fall from the sky intact. In 1988, something like that pretty much did occur, though, when the French captured two Soviet-produced Mil Mi-25 Hind-D helicopters in Chad. Abandoned in the midst of conflict between Libya and Chad, the Libyan air force-operated helicopters offered a tantalizing target for the West. After negotiating with the government of Chad, the U.S. launched a top-secret mission named Operation Mount Hope III -- sending a Chinook helicopter to extract the Soviet rotorcraft in the night.
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**That's a nice helicopter you've got there, It'd be a shame if someone took it.**
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Such a Chad move
I think you meant *That's a nice helicopter you've got there, It'd be a shame if someone Chinook it.*
I was laughing my ass off at the thought of the us just flying into a soviet base and flying away with a god damn helicopter
@Old man Goat THE helicopter
"Hey how's your day imma just... yknow... take this."
fire fox
Somewhere in the 1600’s, during peace time, the Dutch navy sailed into a British navy base and stole their flagship just for shits and giggles 😂
Then you woke up...lol
The voice mix settings are so much better now. I dont have to turn up the volume as much. Thank you! 😎👍
yeah, but not perfect, I came here to look for audio issues in the comments.
@@BenState I didn't hear anything worth complaining about. I mean if this was like an audio book or a professionally shot movie sure. But for a RUclips video it's solid.
And compared to videos from a month ago it's silk lol
Yeah, I have noticed his speech cadence in regards to inflections and intonations sounds a little better too. It definitely takes practice. It's just hard to listen to sometimes when someone who clearly has a speech impediment tries to unnecessarily speak quickly, then stop and pause at random moments and then start speaking really quick again outta nowhere...
@@ajcook7777 just volume in the mix
@@ajcook7777 If you play it at 0.75 he sounds better I think.
7:38 Chinook has the balls to get the job done lol !
😂😂🤣
Lincolin i subbed thats too god lmao
@@Jo2h_
Thanks Cyborg. I just had to say it.
Did you mean the pilots that flew the Chinook had balls?
They were great in Nam for returning down Hueys. Shit hooks probably the only helichopters that can float on water. Them along with hueys & B52 will be still flying 100 years after first ones flew.
Operation *YOINK!*
Halo reach announcer: “yoink”
@@joshuapurdy7065 You glorious SoB, that's exactly what I was thinking when I wrote this.
Ryan McCallum I laughed out loud! Thank you brother your humour made me smile 😀
Ryan McCallum lmao. Good one.
This made my day
*both sides steals each others tech*
me: is this some kind of trade? without
consent?
Yes it is considered theft, theft of intellectual property, and probably a few other crimes.
Like rape but not as bad because you said without consent
Trade without consent sounds a lot like communism and you can't steal from a communist because they don't own property.
In spite of what some people believe, the Soviets had great technology, and we wanted it. We had great technology and they wanted it. Think of it as the ultimate industrial spying. In many ways, knowing what the other side actually had probably contributed to avoiding WW III.
@@armadillotoe that's true until us bombs an Iraq high ranking official of the Iraq army
I'm struggling really hard to picture an African nation when he says Chad and not some beefed out college bro. I blame the internet
That´s why Libya lost there. ;-)
Well, that was the Toyota war, legit Libyan army beat by some cunts in utes from a country literally called Chad
every time i here Chad i think of that guy from Charlie's Angels.
@@stalker5299 they even run over few at mines with their utes. Fucking Chad
@@stalker5299 I was wondering if that was the Toyota War, first time people put big weapons on the back of pick up trucks. Resourceful.
That wasn’t stealing, that was a repo operation, 😂😂😂
I agree. Must have been a few payments late
repo on all that technology the Soviets stole
yes, the Libyans didn't pay the rent (or lease) money, so the chadians took it back and gave it to another rental agency
*Gta 1969*
That’s all it was
"Drake?"
"Yeah?"
"Where's the helicopter?"
@@T0asty05 dislike
@@kushandcars2429 POG
One is in FT POLK, Louisiana
POG
@@duncanidaho0175 POGGERS
The original negotiations started with an offer of 5 blankets, 10 packs of cigarettes and some baseball hats.
"Beads for the natives..."
🖒😎
🙄
You forgot the herd of goats and three virgin sheep….
20 dollar Applebees gift card
When you name your country Chad, that’s a Chad move.
It means lake.
Chad is all about Chad, bro.
@@A____G yes
A G *IT MEANS CHAD*
Lake Chad?
This seems a lot less like "stole" and more like "negotiated for months for salvage rights".
Considering Soviet technology, I imagine the conclusions drawn after all that effort was "Okay, so they put a lot guns, with a lot of armor, under a lot of rotor blades. Huh."
Yeah right, the Apache looks like a complete rip-off (off course further modernized)...like it or not, Soviet technology is one of the best
@@sujoymandal5978 shame they cant afford to build any of them
@72 ventura I can sense alot of sarcasm but i fear you aren't being sarcastic at all
72 ventura
The only thing I know that the Americans copied was from the MiG’s to create the Sabre.
But everything else, like the B29 and countless engines and firearms are just reverse engineered knockoffs.
@72 ventura you see, Russian propaganda works the way claiming the most crazy lies, so that everyone would believe it at least partially
5:26 This was not by any means "the first time the Chinook was used by the army in a major capacity". The Chinook saw extensive use in Vietnam where it was frequently used to recover downed helicopters. In the quote the regiment it is referring to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment which had only been created 7 years before. This was just the major use of Chinooks in that specific regiment. Hundreds or possibly thousands of helicopter lifts done by Chinooks in Vietnam.
Guerilla Rice And yet America got whooped by a bunch of Rice farmers with AKs and MiG-21s 😏
@@harrisn3693 No, it was the political arena that defeated us.
I was the first time that the chinook had been used for such a long flight for the Army.
@@harrisn3693 Might want to change that to the politicians in DC got whooped! Rarely did the US soldier lose the battle to a bunch of rice farmers. The AK was made for fighting and the Mig 21 couldn't fight its way out of a wet paper bag! It was a long drawn out fight with both sides losing battles here and there but casualty counts were much higher on the NVA/Viet Cong/Chinese/North Korea side than the allied side!
@@harrisn3693 More like a professional army that propped up a guerilla force which was nearly wiped out during Tet. The VC casualties resulting from the Tet Offensive were largely only made good by NVA troops, and the Phoenix Program wiped out the VC infrastructure later in the war. It ultimately took a full scale conventional invasion, including T-54 tanks, by the NVA to defeat South Vietnam, and only because the US military was forced by CONGRESS to withdraw air support from the South Vietnamese.
Nobody:
Not even the abandoned MI-25 Hind:
Murika:
*"HIPPITY HOPPITY! YOUR HIND IS NOW MY PROPERTY!!!*
Ha! Awesome!!
Congratulations, you blended two stupid, tired memes.
Hey, it's Soviet property. So technically, it belongs to everyone
@@calarcher true, true
A joke in Poland. "Who took it? Americans with red stars on helmets." Extrapolation of it is: "What is USSR? USA with a red star."
I see a Chinook sling-loading a Hind...I click...I learn. Thanks Dark Docs
Air assault!
we hookers always play dirty
Briant Lindsey excellent
One can always appreciate a good sling-load, right?
"After negotiating with the governement of Chad" 💰💰💰
How Chad of them
I don't get it, what does Chad mean for Americans?
@@brightlight7217 it's a first name (in the US) associated with athletic, wealthy young men/ college kids. It's used as an insult to suggest someone is vein & self important.
@@pedclarkemobile not really an insult anymore, it’s now used as a meaning of “superiority”. Obviously they aren’t truly superior but it’s a running joke that a Chad is someone above all others.
This is old school History channel like professional content amazing job on these videos. (the history channel now days is sadly a sham) I love this channel!
Check out mark Felton if you are interested in great videos with quality right up there with these video!
well you technically don't know if everything is true on what he says
with lots of clickbait
@@danielsteger8456 clickbait typically accompanies lies.
@@HighestRank are you calling me a liar?
I was brought by my pilot father to a base in CA when I was young, we went in and a Hind was in there along with some other foreign aircraft. I never forgot that chopper.
Groom Lake ?
@@vanillagorilla8236 Groom lake is an Air Force Testing Base in Phoenix, Arizona.
Lucky boy you were, a sexy beast you had rode.
Had a similar experience at age 4, when my family once arrived at an army airfield full of running up Hueys and Cobras...
Then, my dad got out of the car, put his flight helmet on, and then ran to his Cobra, strapped in and took off in the most thunderous flock of green helicopters I had ever seen!!!
And that's *exactly* why I ended up crewing Blackhawks 14 years later!!
The Chinook is such an astonishing platform. I was working on the Mission Planning software up until a few months ago and got the fortune of going to one of the bases to see through the installation. Such a beautiful, iconic, and practical in all capacities aircraft. The videos of them deployed in the middle east, hovering against hillsides dropping off or picking up troops is a great demonstration of the pilots skill, as well as the helicopters capabilities.
Heister:"we are the best heister in the world"
CIA:*laughs in stolen mi-24 hind*
Wow, this video is a noticeable production quality improvement on your already excellent docs, keep it coming and thank you!
Fun fact: the oldest chinook (#261) had retired from 54 YEARS OF SERVICE in 2017. Rest in pieces.
Edit: in feb of last year, it was relocated to its retirement home, Boeing museum of flight in Seattle.
Shouldn't that be "RUST in pieces"?
'After negotiating' with Chad 🤣 You mean 'After the cheque was signed'
"stole" it. Like how I order a pizza, then go pay for it and bring my "stolen" pizza home.
Lol
But its soviet bot lybian. It wasn’t lybias to sell to America it was ussr tech
@@ystl1093 It was Chad that gave, sold, traded, etc their spoils of war to the US.
Lybia wasn't involved in the transaction, they just happen to be the party who gave the item up for capture.
It was definitely more cost effective (both 'blood AND treasure'--wise) than trying to fly it out of The U.S.S.R. proper
Very interesting that we are able to know about this recovery of foreign technology as it is standard practice to keep details of this type of mission classified for very long periods of time. This was something that I was unaware of that the US had recovered a actual helicopter from the Soviet Union. Neat!
Robert Daws for 2 million dollars and weapons
Us took more than 1 in total.... This copter is still in the US, Nevada actually. Fully operational
@Stuckgrenadepin, I was told they are a master peice still to the day. Way a head of what we had and now just catching up.
Robert Daws yeah because it’s just a helicopter they stole and not a multi million dollar defense project vehicle or weapon, just a normal attack/transport helicopter.
Nick Mieloszyk Is it the one located in the “Petting Zoo” at Nellis? If so, I’ve actually seen and touched it while at Nellis on TDY back in 2006.
I was once stationed at Ft Campbell in late 60's. I never knew I was in New Mexico.
I know, right? Lmao!
LOL. But New Mexico IS cleaner than regular Mexico...
I was about to say Ft. Campbell is Kentucky
Ya….training was done at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Not sure where they got Fort Campbell. Bliss, maybe… but this was all at WSMR.
Love all the work you guys do. Some really interesting stories, and really well done.
Technically the US did not steal a “Soviet helicopter” They stole Libyan helicopter. It was manufactured by the Soviets. They simply went and gathered up an abandoned helicopter. There was really no stealing involved. Finders keepers...
Strategically acquire
If you want to get even more technical they bought it
Us funded their gorillas they basically paid for the helicopter!! And the irony is they got Gadhaffi murdered once he started making changes to how trade works...I’ll never forget Hilary laughing about it and saying “we came, we saw, he’s dead” that is why Putin said “I don’t like how the west does business so I will protect Russia!”
Are you sure, or are you just guessin? Inquiring minds want to KNOW. If "TECHNICALLY" this is NOT true ... well, maybe my insinuation of Russian vodka played no part. Nonetheless, my post stands as truth, we got nothin on their vodka.
Just restoring the environment to it's former pristine state by removing litter- lol!
Really been addicted to these vids again dark has taught me history can be interesting
Me too,
You should try simple history or weird history. They are much more entertaining.
Weird history is may may better not saying this isn't just he has some crazy vids about history, I think history is very important just my opinion
URSS: "I have the technology to construct an attacker and troops transport helicopter". USA: "We have" ☭
Chico Veinte Minutos ✈︎[] []
hippity hoppity your HIND is now our property.
USSR*?
Something tells me tha Chadian leader got a big fat bag of cash for "cooperating". Lol.
just wonder why soviets never been obsessed stealing amurican junk)
@Alvin Walters cool story kid! you changed my life))
@Alvin Walters since we are talking about helicopters can you name the US equivalent that is lets say better than MI-26?
@Alvin Walters According to who 😂 tech wise China is superior to US,and is getting very close to pass US military wise,military wise with that much smaller budget Russia is still ahead of US if that wasnt the case US would long time ago look to give them both "freedom",US are nothing less than a full fledged cold blooded terrorist that gets their huge budgets by stealing from the world and killing in the name of Israel zionist jews.Prove me wrong.
@Alvin Walters hey "sophisticated military equipment" guy! where is your Mi-26 equivalent ?
A Chad soldier: "A Hind-D?! What's a Russian gunship doing here?"
Thank you for the work you do I love these videos.
When I was in an Army Tank unit. We had a motor pool full of soviet tanks. They were all in running order. They were tested and studied by the US.
USA: steals soviet’s helicopter
Soviet: SOMEBODY TOUCHA MY SPAGHET
RADIOSLAVE no Soviet, it isn’t yours! It’s ours!
It would be more like Cyka Blyat!!! Not pasta.
Mike V or more like borscht
well spoken, well researched, please keep creating this content.
Russians: - "We have a one of a kind armored attack and troop transport helicopter"
Afghans: - "We got some secondhand AK's"
Guess who won...
Ash also doing it while wearing sandals.
just look at the casualties ,you dumb fuck . The USSR pulled out of Afghanistan because Gorbachev simply destroyed it and gave the enemy an enormous help
Russians were until u.s started supplying stingers to afghans.
Stingers
Boxing Expert Then why no East green cards for Pakistanis? Oh because America is full of shit.
Ok, reading the title I imagined them actually stealing it from an enemy base, not just collecting it from some place.
That Hind made a visit to Patuxent River in the late 90’s. I got to help work on it when it was sitting at rotary test flight line next to Test Pilot School. Cool history.
Is it the same one that was at Aberdeen Proving Grounds?
I can remember that the Soviets were mega pissed we got that bird. There was no "export" model of the Hind, so the one the US got was the exact one the Soviets were using. It was a flying tank that could take a hell of a beating. At the time our Apache's could not sustain anywhere near the damage that Hind could. The Hind had a titanium bath tub for the pilot and our pilots sat on flack jackets. The Hind's system redundancy was very impressive as well. Thanks to that Hind the Apache's have titanium armor for the pilots, and the redundant systems were reconfigured to better mitigate damage.
6:50 - I wasn't aware that there was a Ft. Campbell was in New Mexico. I always thought it was in Kentucky.
Unless there is another Ft. Campbell in New Mexico, there is one in Kentucky.
Eric Svalland that’s because it has to be a flub, Campbell is in Kentucky and 160th is located there
May be that’s where they did the test to simulate the conditions in chad.
@Erich Klein Maybe Holloman AFB if it was in New Mexico, or Ft. Irwin in California, if they wanted real sand desert.
That's what they WANT you to think...
I’m sure that out of all the aircraft the Soviet’s could have lost, this one really hurt. That helicopter is an absolute beast!
Every time I hear the name “Chad” I laugh for some reason.
Thank the incels
If I had a beer for every time he said chad !! I’d be fucked up 🔥😂
No matter how advanced these new helicopters the west have these days
The Hind is still the most badass and menacing looking helicopter I have ever seen
doodskie999 H145M better looking though
One word, Apache...
YOU WHAT...SORRY BUT " APACHE "
Excellent video.
Thank you.
"In the dead of night"
Photo in the day
Lol
If Operation Mount Hope III was so good, how come there hasn't been an Operation Mount Hope IV?
If permission with Chad through negotiations was obtained then it wasn't stolen.
Crazy to see a big helicopter under a massive helicopter. what a power. Incredible, kiss from France 🇫🇷
We just need to build the “Chinook Blackhawk Apache”.
Simple.
Lmao
look up 'Guns a go go'
What an incredible piece of history!!
This Hind was sitting in a Hangar at Cairns Army Airfield, and I would have been allowed to fly it , but its engines were overtemped/wrecked, and it wasn't flyable yet. I flew the Mi-8 "Bearcat 50" instead with my colleague Jeff Stayton.
Did it fly as good as our birds?
I wish we were still working on them in El Paso. Not a lot of people know the good we did with them there along with the Mi-17, An-2, Mi-2.
What a fucking steal, this has to be one of the funniest out of context opperations ever
DARK DOCS : Accessing enemy technology
CHINA : Here come my topic
My roommate and I saw this helicopter at Fort Bliss Texas in 1988. They rolled it out of a hanger, hovered it briefly, then rolled it back in. Rumors were rampant we had it, but no one ever saw it.
the back of a chinook kinda looks like a surprised fish
Lol yeah that’s a pretty accurate depiction
Much better pace of narration in this video that others I've seen, good job 👍 all great videos but was finding the narration wearing.
Soviet pilot: sir my bird is missing 😢
"Yes sir, our bird has gone missing"
I like the narration style back in 2020 far better than now.
7:40 "The US outfitted the Chinook with massive balls."
One of the meanest looking attack helicopter.
"Yeah, we're just gonna take this, it's ours now."
The Chinooks were used extensively before this operation. What was new was its use by the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, the "Nightstalkers." Ft. Campbell is in Kentucky, not New Mexico. They flew them from the 160th's base at Ft. Campbell to NM.
My dad served in USSR in an airbase near Kaliningrad. He told me how one of their helicopters went missing in a night. After searching for few days they found it in a village 2 miles away. Turns out that some drunk men dared one of them to steal a helicopter from the airfield for a bottle of vodka.
So the madcap intrudes the base at night, unlocks the brakes and just pulls it out right through the main gates, then all the way to the village all by himself. The patrol were asleep at the time so no one noticed.
Drunk Russian: CHECKMATE AMERICA
P.S. sorry for poor english )
A bottle of vodka can do some magic, Tovarich.
Arsenic 75 your English is fine, and your story is really funny. Every country has goofy things that go on I think
"here"
"What the fuck ivan"
"Give me my vodka blyat"
You don’t gotta apologize for messing up your own language
Terminator II feeling; -"say, that's a nice helicopter..."
How America's enemies get their hand on American's technology.
America's Enemies: "Here's $50K for your upcoming political campaign."
Sad but true.
Why is that so true
50 k hahahah yeah ok
When I heard about this, it was sooo hard to laugh about it. I called it “A Helojacking”, LOL!
Your channel makes me question everything. What secrets are hidden.
Waaayyyy more than you would like to know my friend
@@gerardcowan155 lmao yes the mole people and the flat earth
A bunch of lost nukes, a bunch of sunk nasty shit, a bunch of near war moments, a bunch of killed spies, a bunch of killed politicians, a bunch of overthrown governments.
But 9/11 was not an inside job, just incompetence. We went to the moon 6 times. The earth is round. Vaccines don't cause autism. Climate change is real and caused by humans. There is no deep state and nobody knows what the fuck is going on.
the comedian bill burr would either love or hate this channel. he loves conspiracies but they also drive him insane
In that case, Horus channel may be of interest to your inquisitive mind.
The boys hit the most devious lick of all time
Directly access.......I once " directly accessed " $20 from my mom's purse when I was a kid. She beat my ass , glad to see it turned out better this time .
That is an extremely good chopper
"A Hind D? Colonel, what's a Russian gunship doing here?"
"I have no idea". But it looks like our little diversion got their attention
Right? That is about what I said as I went to our 11pm meeting on Hurlburt Field, Fl.
"What in the hell is a Russian helo doing in our hangar?!?"
"It's not there. You don't see it"
But then we were told that we stole it in Chad.
"Fell off the back of a truck Sir."
@@robertschumacher2707 A sky truck?
Wow this is really well edited.. This should be on netflix or something.
"Does anybody know about this order of helicopter parts going to the US"?
It was also called Flying Tank. Well armed and armored war machine that could fly in most weather conditions.
For the last damn time it’s the Mil -24 “Hind” , I understand that the Mi-25 was the export version that Lybia bought , but i can’t watch this, it just sounds wrong
Pwj579 ah thanks
5:08 that music triggered my fight or flight from years of playing dead money
The USA does have a rival for it-----AIRWOLF😁
Such a bad show
Well, it’s one of those examples of , “Its so bad, it’s good!”
The Apache only holds 1 or 2 personnel I believe, while other larger helicopters have no real weapons.
Lol
Oh thanks @rock crawler. Now I have the damned theme music stuck in my head. Need another _ear worm_ to replace it.
My favorite Aviation Regiment, even though I was USAF on a C/SARS wing.The Army's Special Operations unit ,The 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) 160th SOAR, special operations force of the United States Army, general-purpose, Special forces and special operations forces.Task Force Brown inside JSOC: "Night Stalkers don't quit!", "Death waits in the dark!", "Six guns don't miss!" and wear the Maroon beret..also part of Operation Gothic Serpent, who also had my favorite QRF.10th Mountain.
Russia: Hey that's my helicopter!
United States: *Our* helicopter
You're welcome. Nice vid.. not entirely accurate but gets the major points right. Ken Grina is the Boeing Vertol (later Boeing Helicopters) guy leading the meeting early in the video. One of the highlights of my career to support the 160th Aviation Group (now SOAR). Had the odd experience of being in Boeing Flight Test operating Sikorsky UH60s.
Again, nice vid.... keep up the good work.
Wait! I was assured by a coworker that he flew as a passenger in a REAL Russian Hind while as an extra in Rambo 3 during the last scenes filmed in Yuma, AZ...that movie premiered in 1988. This mission occurred in 1998..omg was I right when I told him that he was actually flying in one of the Hollywood Vismod French puma “hinds” also seen in the beloved movie, Red Dawn??
Also, great video! Love your channel...and yes, my coworker is special.
The Mount Hope missions occurred between 1986 and 1988
I can confidently follow up from where you left off... about what and where this exact Russian Hind Helicopter was used and now located -->
After Arriving in the continental United States, this Mi-24 Hind (as it’s still referred to, because of the airframe and power plant), was put to use at several U.S. Army bases to serve a role as an enemy gunship in military training exercises... especially used at Fort Rucker, Alabama.
Which is also the primary training base for all U.S. Army Aviators and of course the AH-64 Apache.
This Mi-24 Hind was retired from use several years ago and flown directly from Fort Rucker, Alabama to the Birmingham International Airport .... where it was later towed 3 blocks away to the “Southern Museum of Flight.”
It’s now on display there inside the main hangar, still as of February, 2021.
"After negotiating with the government of Chad..."
WE GAVE THEM A DUMP TRUCK LOAD OF **MONEY*"
2 million dollars was hardly a dump truck full of money. Unless it was all in one dollar bills.
So... There's a couple of errors here. 1, Fort Campbell is actually in Kentucky, not New Mexico; 2, OP Mount Hope represented the first time the 160th SOAR used the -47 platform in a major capacity, not the army, which had used chinooks extensively in Vietnam.
*Mark Felton has entered the chat *
Nobody cares
I can hear his intro
Did not..
@@MarkFeltonSwamphare I LOLd for real
I pushed this bird into a hanger at Robert Gray Army airfield in the spring of 1991 while the crew did a RON. We had to leave a MI6 Hip outside. 2 years later I saw the Hip and the Hind at Ft. Polk Louisiana being operated by the OpForces team during an ARTEP.
Isn't that the helicopter from Red Dawn?
It's a variant of the hind-D ,Yes( although a Mil M- I 25 version, for those who are tuned in)
Sorry to be a complete F'ing nerd, but no, in red dawn (also Rambo III) the helicopter was a puma mocked up to look like the Hind A.
terry yocum III yeah that’s what I was thinking as well
That helicopter look like if the one from Red Dawn and Blue Thunder had a baby
@@terryyocumiii9645 No actually, I never realized that. It was very convincing.
It's dumb because the military can steal a whole ass helicopter but in gta 5 I can't even bring up a bulky truck
Check out Mark Felton productions. He has a video on this, there are also other great stories. He is a genuine historian
He is bias this channel isn't
Bee Mail in what way is a historian with an array of books biased and to what exactly?
@@Horizon301. Hes being salty to the other Mark Felton comments, idk what his deal is
Farious Marious Mark Felton doesn’t like nazi’s. That’s obviously proof of bias. 🤦♂️
@@peterpluim7912 Well I mean, they're nazis...why would they be good?
EDIT: Just noticed a lot of his videos cover the germans and their military. It's an interesting theater of war, he just finds that theater interesting.
I wish we could all still have a good time like this without getting blown up 😂
Hippity
Hoppity
This Hind is now my Property 🚁
Fort Campbell is NOT in New Mexico, but rather in Kentucky. The 160th SOAR IS located at FCKY, but I think the location for testing that you mean is most likely White Sands Missle Range (WSMR).
A Soviet helicopter wound up on the base I was stationed on and we used a Super Puma mock-up (see original 'Red Dawn') when satellites were overhead.
They determined that the helicopter was vulnerable to attack by a single person using a crossbow and explosive arrows.
This is a very good story, It's good to see we can also "acquire" foreign Military inventory by the same means as what has been used by certain foreign nations to 'boost' our Military items. If my memory is correctly serving me, Russia and China both have done the same only with our fixed wing aircraft, so, thank you, Russia for the chopper. Thank you, 'Dark Docs', for sharing this exciting story, you did it well and the re-enactments were superb.
Overpressure the cabin to protect against a nuclear attack?
Overall though, this video was awesome!
Thirst Fast , protect against nuclear fallout .
@@calsdorf3 Ohhh, okay. That makes sense.
main reason other nations never pursued the attack/transport helicopter combination is because of the drawbacks. When fully loaded with troops, fuel, and ammunition, the Hind could not lift off vertically and required a runway to perform a rolling takeoff. This completely eliminated its usefulness as a viable helicopter as the choice had to be made whether to limit the load of ammo, fuel or cargo. It was also extremely large and gave off a large heat signature which made it very easy to shoot down (as the Russian Afgan experience proved) and it was also not agile at all. In fact the Hind is infamous for chopping off its own tail when making sharp turns. It might have the characteristics of a combined role helicopter but it didnt really work.
"The US started Negotiations with Chad"
And Tyrone
And Brad
and Karen, she wants to talk to the manag- I mean, general