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General Aviation Discussion => General Aviation Discussion => Topic started by: jasT1981 on September 19, 2017, 04:57:50 PM

Title: Russian attack helicopter fires on spectators during exercise
Post by: jasT1981 on September 19, 2017, 04:57:50 PM

Topic says it all really, quite bizarre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=95UXlp37hpY

Title: Re: Russian attack helicopter fires on spectators during exercise
Post by: Angry Turnip on September 19, 2017, 05:09:01 PM

It`s hard to tell if people had gathered where they should not have been,or was it some other reason - if it was at an airshow I thought that mil aircraft were not to carry live weapons.
Most likely thing it was a live fire exercise,and those people and cars should not have been there,however you would expect the heli crew not to open fire if that was the case. :-\

Weird.

Title: Re: Russian attack helicopter fires on spectators during exercise
Post by: gadwall58 on September 19, 2017, 05:38:59 PM

I would think this is some kind of range area such as Spadeadam where aircraft can practice live-firing and the crew have assumed the vehicles are part of the target. Given the range of the firing point I can only say the crew didn't carry out checks for "live" targets as there shouldn't have been any.

Title: Re: Russian attack helicopter fires on spectators during exercise
Post by: Sneaky_Nikon on September 19, 2017, 06:10:50 PM

Zapad 2017 is the current Russian/Byelorussian Exercise that some of the newspapers were telling us we should be very scared about last week. 

Title: Re: Russian attack helicopter fires on spectators during exercise
Post by: Angry Turnip on September 19, 2017, 08:36:41 PM

Here is another longer video which claims to suggest it was an accident  :-\

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=95UXlp37hpY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=95UXlp37hpY)