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[elguapo]

Is this real?

[1911-a1]

I belive that is the first time the talibans used the american supplied stingers against Soviet helicopters.

[Djuice]

That looks like a SA-7 Grail vs Mi-24... Must be from Chechnya..

[1911-a1]

That looks like a SA-7 Grail vs Mi-24... Must be from Chechnya..

Might be, but im almost sure i saw that footage in a documentary about CIA helping the talibans against the Soviets.

[H3]

Yep it's real and don't think it should be posted as they're Terrorists v's Russian troops , bad v good so to speak , that cry get's right on my goat !!

[Lazarou]

This happened in 2002 in Chechnya. Two Mi-24 gunships were escorting an Mi-8 when Chechen combatants / foreign Jihadists shot down one of the Mi-24s with a Russian-made MANPADS.

And use the search function, the video has been posted many times before.

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums...ead.php?t=2616

[beNder]

I belive that is the first time the talibans used the american supplied stingers against Soviet helicopters.

uhmmm, that does not look like a stinger...try again...

[AlphaOneSix]

Might be, but im almost sure i saw that footage in a documentary about CIA helping the talibans against the Soviets.

It's absolutely not a Stinger. It does look like an SA-7 to me, too.

And the CIA never helped the Taliban. The Taliban also didn't fight the Soviets, they rose up after the Soviets left and the U.S. quit caring about Afghanistan.

[BritSig]

^^^ Mate the CIA and their brit counter parts where up to their necks assisting the Mujahdeen (apologises on spelling) during the soviet campaign.

[mas-36]

I wonder, are there other shoot-down vids like this, from shoulder fired devices?

BTW- I agree, definately a SA-7. Stinger is more slender in appearance and has a box-like metal plates which unfold for viewer to aim at target.

[Djuice]

Yes, all that help that CIA and MI5 granted to the Arab's during the Cold War has come back and bit their asses. Oh well.

[Luno]

I wonder, are there other shoot-down vids like this, from shoulder fired devices?

BTW- I agree, definately a SA-7. Stinger is more slender in appearance and has a box-like metal plates which unfold for viewer to aim at target.

Not SA-7 mate it where confirmed to be an Igla SA-16

[AlphaOneSix]

^^^ Mate the CIA and their brit counter parts where up to their necks assisting the Mujahdeen (apologises on spelling) during the soviet campaign.

That is correct, no arguments from me on that.

[KillerBD]

This is in Chechnya, by the way. One question though, do the people in the chopper (Mi-24) survive?
Nevermind, I just found out. (The two pilots died)

[Lazarou]

Yes, all that help that CIA and MI5 granted to the Arab's during the Cold War has come back and bit their asses. Oh well.

Neither Afghans nor Chechens are Arabs. And during the Cold War it was the Soviet Union that supported the Arab Countries.

This is in Chechnya, by the way. One question though, do the people in the chopper (Mi-24) survive?

No. The pilot tried to land on auto rotation but failed.