AP Osprey Hit in South Sudan- 4 injured

[HAWDINGL]

https://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_SOUTH_SUDAN_US?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-12-21-07-08-38

AP Reports that it looked like an Osprey, 4 injured, one reported critical.

Now they are saying a UN Helicopter was downed as well.

Might have fit better under the operation deny Christmas '13 threads.

[waveshaper]

Sounds like rebel fire damaged two U.S. Ospreys and one of the aircraft was heavily damaged. Three U.S. Military Personnel were wounded, one of them critically. Also, the rescue mission appears to have been aborted at least temporarily.

[backseatdriver]

Anyone know if the Ospreys were AF or Marine?

[Breckey]

AF CV-22s

[waveshaper]

3 Hurlburt Field Ospreys hit in Sudan.

https://www.nwfdailynews.com/military/top-story/hurlburt-ospreys-hit-in-south-sudan-1.253194

[Azimuth]

Story is now released by AFSOC. These guys are receiving the 2013 Mackay Trophy for their heroism

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/u-s-air-force-finally-talks-about-that-time-three-v-22s-almost-got-shot-down-d6fdeea9313c

https://www.afsoc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123419548

[ComingLeft]

No thanks to one of the worst intel assessments. Those guys did a great job. Cool to hear what happened on the CV-22 to make it happen. The worst wounded would not be alive if it wasn't for the C-17 getting ready to depart Entebbe. Complete dumb luck.

The alternate means of transport was a hail mary.

Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

[Breckey]

AF Crimes story

As three CV-22s on a rescue mission descended on a U.N. compound in war-torn South Sudan, Capt. Arjun Rau saw something he’ll never forget — a bright red streak, headed straight at him.

“We were turning right, and I see a red tracer fly by my head,” Rau said of the Dec. 21 flight. “I thought it was a road flare. It turned out to be a tracer.” His seat in the Osprey’s cockpit began to shake. Small-arms and heavy machine gun rounds his aircraft, Chalk 2, and the two others in the flight. The carbon fiber floor started to shred and the armor under his seat began to rumble as rounds came through the aircraft.

I hope the pictures that were in the AAR on SIPR will be released. Really showed how badly these aircraft were shredded.

[disgruntledemployee]

AF Crimes story

I hope the pictures that were in the AAR on SIPR will be released. Really showed how badly these aircraft were shredded.

Most likely not as composites don't react too well to bullets. "Shedded" is quite descriptive.

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