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Chinook damaged by rocket-propelled grenade

Barbara Cockburn
 on December 19, 2008 4:41 PM | | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0) |

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Fresh details and images have emerged of an incident in which one of the Royal Air Force's Boeing CH-47D Chinook HC2 transport helicopters was damaged during an attack by the Taliban in Afghanistan last May. Read on..

(Image courtesy Crown Copyright)

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I would think things got a little bummmmpy as the blade took a hit like that..........
What you didnt point out was the hit the tanns housing right below the rotor hub took...... luck was with them that day.

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