Russian pilot told how he got away from a Stinger MANPADS missile in his helicopter

Russian army pilot aviation spoke about his actions during one of the battles as part of a special military operation in Ukraine. A guided anti-aircraft missile from the Stinger MANPADS was fired at his helicopter from a distance of about 800 m.

Russian officer:

The distance is small, the time to make a decision is a fraction of a second. I just knew that I had to survive somehow.

The pilot talks about shifting the helicopter into a weak left bank. The rocket went into the engines of the rotorcraft.

Pilot of the Russian Aerospace Forces:

Then, with a sharp maneuver to the right, he left the missile (MANPADS Stinger).

At the same time, the wingman, who was walking at some distance, having assessed the launch site, destroyed the calculation of the Ukrainian MANPADS by firing from an aircraft gun.

Russian pilot:

After this, the effect of the Stingers on my calculation did not occur.

In that battle, the crew of an attack helicopter of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed a ZSU, an armored personnel carrier and a mortar crew.

Thus, it is the professionalism of the pilot, the high level of training, and skills that make it possible to perform combat missions with a high degree of efficiency even in the conditions of the use of man-portable anti-aircraft missile systems by the enemy.

Comments

[konstantin68]

Flyers are generally the golden asset of the sun! In all senses!
Work guys!

[ancestors from Don]

From this interview: During the crossing of the Dnieper, about 15 launches of MANPADS were made on a group of helicopters. The air crews of the Russian Aerospace Forces, after firing off heat traps and performing anti-missile maneuvers, reorganized into two units and used the “fire carousel” tactics, inflicting continuous fire on enemy positions with small arms and missile weapons.

- There was a very dense fire. They fired Stingers, counted 10-15 launches. We were the first at this airfield; no strikes had been made on it before. We noticed the tactics that our fathers used in Afghanistan, 8 helicopters broke up into 2 links of 4, which allows us to close the circle, to conduct constant fire from it at the enemy who cannot respond.

[kirosi]

in fact, this tactic was very widely used by our attack aircraft in the Great Patriotic War

[kirosi]

there was still a moment that in this way they could practically work without fighter cover: enemy planes simply could not approach

[Normann]

And what to answer? MANPADS with which they do not know how to work.

[Giant thought]

Respect to our pilots, their skill, endurance, mutual assistance. We are proud of you.

[Egoza]

Quote: Thought Giant

Respect to our pilots, their skill, endurance, mutual assistance. We are proud of you.

joining! And also a huge thanks to their teachers, technicians, everyone who worries about them while they are in the air.

[Hunter 2]

Keep For the sake of interest, I was watching Ukrainian news now ... well, what can I say - a complete kabzdets! There, the lads of the "generals" of Russians are already burying packs, and the bill for downed planes is dozens a day, the turntables have generally ceased to count. It's downright scary , apparently, the Armed Forces of Ukraine approximately near Tyumen, Krasnoyarsk with Novosib in the blockade, Yekaterinburg - they are bombing ... people are tearing sheets on white flags, the kingdom of crooked mirrors. How are we going to live with these assholes???

[Commodore Arctic]

It is THEY who will live with us - and not we with them! )))
We will retrain those who do not retrain - to BAM - to build the 2nd branch!

[Hunter 2]

Quote from Commodore Arctic

It is THEY who will live with us - and not we with them! )))
We will retrain those who do not retrain - to BAM - to build the 2nd branch!

BAM is already Ukrainian... you can't keep up with the news. A thinking person cannot imagine such a madhouse! Comrades - be sure to look at the news ... jumble nervously smokes on the sidelines. Honestly I don’t know if it’s possible to give a link to the propagandists ??? I think if you want everything - everything will be found.

[Commodore Arctic]

Not! This offends my mind!

[Hunter 2]

Quote from Commodore Arctic

Not! This offends my mind!

No time for mental illness... run to Yakutia she seems not yet under occupation, although I'm not sure anymore

[musketon64]

Here on YouTube I read the comment of one resident of Ukraine. Prankster from near Odessa. Grit, our local rural air defense shot down one Romanian maize, two gulls and one crow!

[kirosi]

still not lying: somewhere there the Romanian MIG21 was filled up, plus a helicopter with a rescue team

[alexmach]

Glimpses of reason are already beginning to slip there. They have already been told that there is nothing to unlock Mariupol, that the troops in the Donbas are fighting defensive battles and that they themselves are not happy, and that the war will be long.

[sifgame]

Why are you watching this? masochist? On the very first day, I stopped being interested in news from there.

[Grits]

Quote from Commodore Arctic

We will retrain those who do not retrain - to BAM - to build the 2nd branch!

I want a bridge to Sakhalin... Can I have a couple of thousand free workers?

[Commodore Arctic]

Your Chalobitnaya is satisfied! Head to Dill and take whoever you want!

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Hunter 2

There, the lads of the "generals" of Russians are already burying packs, and the bill for downed planes is dozens a day, the turntables have generally ceased to count. It's downright scary

Berlin is "kyrdyk", and Goebbels announces victorious reports, and in the same tone, Hitler will hand him crosses to the Hitler Youth. And in Ukraine now the same thing - "win!"

[Hunter 2]

Yes, Goebels is resting here ... now I heard “Russian invaders raped a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine many times” how can I hear it now???

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Hunter 2

Yes, Goebels is resting here ...

The students have surpassed the teachers.

[Reserve buildbat]

and "repeatedly a soldier" - how is it? The rest of the words are clear.

[Magellan]

Berlin is "kyrdyk", and Goebbels announces victorious reports, and in the same tone, Hitler will hand him crosses to the Hitler Youth. And in Ukraine now the same thing - "win!"

It reminded me of the situation, as during the Second World War the German "Wehrmachtbericht" covered the events. I read that even Goebbels went nuts from their optimism. The last issue was published on May 8, 1945, and it was written there that "everything is fine, everyone is great"

[Thrifty]

Okhotoved2-we will release them to Europe, and we will retrain and re-educate the adequate ones, there are no options here!

[Dmtr]

There is no reason to retrain and re-educate adequate people, they themselves understand who is who

[kirosi]

don't worry, the more lies - the stronger the shock will be when people from the "matrix" get into reality. And those who are "creative" all this, so they will wash off, so that we will not have problems with them either. Well, except that they will try to brainwash people from there.

[velikoros-xnumx]

Respect for the composure of the pilot, flint man

[rocket757]

Russian pilot told how he got away from a Stinger MANPADS missile in his helicopter

Such is her combat work ... the one who is more skilled wins. Most often this is the case.

[Emergency]

Well done pilots. The guide also did a good job.

[opposite28]

The distance is small, the time to make a decision is a fraction of a second. I just knew that I had to survive somehow.

It's hard to learn, it's easy to fight, and so it is in everything, to the point of complete automatism.

[mojohed2012]

Taking into account the fact that rumors are becoming more and more active and louder about the understaffing of divisions and brigades of the Polish Army with contract soldiers with the aim of invading at least 4 western regions of Ukraine (Strelkov-Girkin often mentions this) or further, a formidable time is coming for the adoption of cardinal and fateful decisions by Putin regarding the future of the Russian people and the Russian state.
No matter how pretentious it may look, but the invasion of the Poles into the west of Ukraine is a turning point in the deterrence doctrines that were adopted even at the signing of the START treaties.
If the Poles send in troops, and we cover their positions or columns with aircraft or missiles, then, theoretically, at the behest of Biden and Co., Article 5 of the NATO Charter will come into force and Russia will be at war with them.
And this is a question from several hours to several days - the exchange of massive nuclear missile strikes, anticipated by our strikes on places of border concentration of NATO troops and airfields with tactical nuclear weapons.

[max702]

No, Article 5 comes into play if they attack the TERRITORY of a NATO country .. If we burn the advancing logs in a zapukre, then no article .. And even in the case of attacks on Polish territory, not everything is so simple .. Although all these agreements and other garbage it only works in peacetime, when there is a war, no one cares about these particulars ..
rs: And I said that Lvov and other zapukra should be burned in a thermonuclear fire so that all sorts of things do not climb .. It looks like everything is going to this .. But I repeat, I had to start with this ..

[kirosi]

in fact, if we "cover" them on the territory of Ukraine, no article 5 is valid. In any case, it shouldn't, and a possible joint NATO response will be "aggression of choice." An example is the story of the Turks when they entered and occupied territories in Syria and Iraq. the same Kurds (who, by the way, are supported by the Americans) are quite actively destroying the Turkish military, and the Syrians carried out operations against them. Although, of course, all this was very local, but the PRINCIPLE is important.

[mojohed2012]

The fact of the matter is that, someone would like Putin to accept Poland’s entry into the war with the Russians and calm down, they say: well, like, like in Syria, the Americans, it’s illegal to sit in the northeast and steal oil and Syrian gas and what?
That's what they want, but if ours are hit by missiles at the Polish columns, they are, after all, NATO soldiers, and Poland flares up with "righteous anger" for the losses provoked by it, then no Fashington will hold them back when the Polish moments are trampled to the drain along with tanks and motorized infantry, continuing to lose both aircraft and tanks and infantry .....
That's when Batsden and Co. will have a choice: or say - Poland outside of NATO acts by itself and NATO has nothing to do with Ukraine. Or, falling for allied ties and anger at the Russians, he will unleash a full-fledged Russia-NATO war on the entire "eastern flank", and then everywhere. And point!

[kirosi]

ek you painted. Let me remind you that, according to the news, the Psheks made a reservation: to enter, but if the United States approves. that is, it’s like: “keep me seven” .. “Shura, we are cultured people .. just like Ilf and Petrov

[keeper03]

800 meters is a second to execute a decision, not to mention acceptance!
Worked great!

[lomograph]

Wai, well done!
They can do it themselves and teach others.

Fear, adversary of any nationality!

[Alien From]

Here is the excerpt and professional work

[Elephant]

All the same, shelling from the ground is very dangerous. It is worth interrupting or significantly limiting the delivery of new weapons to Ukraine. Why is it necessary to destroy a number of auto and railway bridges in Western Ukraine closer to the border

[Grits]

Quote: Elephant

Why is it necessary to destroy a number of auto and railway bridges in Western Ukraine closer to the border

And everything is better. As well as all railway stations at the entrance to the country.

[Commodore Arctic]

Everything came together in one point: Skill, Experience, Excellent work of aviation equipment and even Fart !!! Well done boys!! Keep it up!

[gridasov]

I reason like this in order to become invulnerable to missiles, you need to change the ideology of counteraction. That is, not to defend against missiles, but to attack them and search for attacking installations.

[House 25 Sq. 380]

Sometimes they write, they say, our helicopter was shot down, sorry for the car ....
Yes, and with her, with a piece of iron, the main thing is that such PEOPLE are alive ...
People will be alive: they will make a new piece of iron, and they will lift it into the air, and the task will be completed ...
Guys, health to you!

[kirosi]

you. of course, they are right, but the pilots themselves treat their cars as combat friends, and there is something real in this mysticism: at least the fact that the pilot is much more comfortable in "his" car.

[avib]

At the same time, the wingman, who was walking at some distance, having assessed the launch site, destroyed the calculation of the Ukrainian MANPADS by firing from an aircraft gun.

How is Stanislavsky doing?
Stinger's crew is one man with a shoulder rocket. Shot and ran away. The rocket goes to the heat of the engine.

[House 25 Sq. 380]

Does the calculation run faster than an aircraft gun?

[Astra55]

The main combat unit of MANPADS is a fire crew consisting of two people.

[gorenina91]

Russian pilot told how he got away from a Stinger MANPADS missile in his helicopter

- Eh, why does the pilot tell all this? - After all, pilots, sailors, astronauts, etc. These are very superstitious people. - Such things can be told - after the war, in retirement, in memoirs, and so on.

[kirosi]

What am I surprised at. How do these foolish Ukrainians not think about how much all these Stingers, Javelins, etc. cost. Well, consider this complex, this is a fortune. so grab it, take it to the same Poland and sell it, there the gangsters will tear it off with their hands. By the way, ours could also announce (through leaflets or something else) that a reward is paid for each unit. Surely there are many who want to sell.

[lvov_aleksey]

it’s easier, the stinger is resting, I’m not talking about the heat of the trap, why there aren’t any of them - they shot in battle ...
ps question to the authors of the site about grammar, moderators track articles, so they must inform - the verb "shot" how to spell it correctly?))))))))))))))

[lvov_aleksey]

Quote from kirosi

What am I surprised at. How do these foolish Ukrainians not think about how much all these Stingers, Javelins, etc. cost. Well, consider this complex, this is a fortune. so grab it, take it to the same Poland and sell it, there the gangsters will tear it off with their hands. By the way, ours could also announce (through leaflets or something else) that a reward is paid for each unit. Surely there are many who want to sell.

go trade, weak?))))))))))

[kirosi]

what is your problem? afraid of the psheks and other yuropians? it’s our own fault, it’s not us who are pumping up Ukraine with these weapons, but the farther it is from Ukraine and Russia, the better for us. And it’s better to pay for such a complex and be sure that it won’t kill any of ours, so it can also be used against them.