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JamesG said:I mean that most helicopters are armored, so when it gets hit by small arms fire, shouldn't it stay longer in the field? Any thoughts?
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US transport helicopters did not have standard floor armor until after Operation Just Cause in Panama. This means that even the first iterations of the UH-60 were not armored in many places. Most early helicopters were even more sensitive than current ones and armor only adds weight and reduces control. I would say that a closer inspection of non-dedicated gunship helicopters would show that most helicopters are in fact
not armored, or at least not as armored as you would seem to think. Helicopters to this day are extremely vulnerable to accurate ground fire.