Reply #19: Many SAMs, the cheap ones, are heat seekers. [View All]

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Great for Helicopters.

What annoys me is they should have seen this coming.
They keep trying to pretend the enemy are idiots until some
grunts get killed, and they they take corrective measures
that still assume the enemy is a bunch of idiots, like this
fly only at night rule.

Those choppers are sitting ducks, with hundreds of thousands of
RPGs and shoulder-launched SAMs floating around, and suckering
them with a distraction is the first idea that is going to come
to mind for somebody that wants to try them out.