Chinese warplanes fired flares in front of a Canadian military helicopter over international waters of the South China Sea on Sunday, an operation that Canadian military officers said was dangerous and could have had caused significant damage.
“The risk to a helicopter in that instance is the flares moving into the rotor blades or the engines so this was categorized as both unsafe and non-standard, unprofessional…”
omg did anyone else know that if you fire something into a helicopter engine or hit one of its rotor blades off it might fall down?
If you got this narrative going in the press, the next day the news would be reporting the helicopter pilot thought there was an emergency that needed help because it saw a flare.
omg did anyone else know that if you fire something into a helicopter engine or hit one of its rotor blades off it might fall down?
if only there was a way for Canada not to fly its helicopters around South China sea
If you got this narrative going in the press, the next day the news would be reporting the helicopter pilot thought there was an emergency that needed help because it saw a flare.