Mortar rounds hit helicopters at US base

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4812398.html

BAGHDAD — Mortar rounds hit a U.S. Air Force base north of Baghdad on Thursday, destroying one helicopter and damaging nine others, police said.

The attack at Taji, a major Air Force on the northern outskirts of Baghdad, occurred about 2 a.m., the police said.

"There was an indirect fire attack on the base at Taji which resulted in damage to some aircraft," the military said. Indirect fire is a term the military generally uses to describe rocket or mortar attacks.

The attack destroyed one helicopter and damaged nine others, the police said.

[PCIntern]

1. If a mortar round hits you BOOM/SPLAT and blows you

into a million teeny-tiny pieces, is it still termed 'indirect'?

Just askin'

[HereSince1628]

2. Seems like the cost-benefit on the price of mortar shells

is pretty favorable if they can wreck 10 multi-million dollar helicopters for the price of a mortar round. Certainly gives new meaning to a$$ymetrical warfare.