>khazakstan helicopter gets lost and asks for directions

>>33002953
Probably doesn't have the right navigation equipment and the weather looks like absolute shit. Not a wonder if it got lost, this used to happen a lot in WW1 and I'm sure it still happened in WW2 as well.

I'm in the uk, we had a flight of three USAF Pave Hawks land on our local golf course because they veered off route and didn't have the fuel the fuel to circle about trying to refined their course. So they emergency landed on our golf course to had to replot their route.

I'm in the county which till recently had two USAF bases, that was the first time in my area they fucked up badly.

Apart from that they keep crashing and sometimes dieing.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/07/norfolk-helicopter-crash-cley-next-sea

Our pilots are capable of flying our coast without crashing or ditching, why can't Americans?

>>33002953
>is your military this incompetent?

yes

they can't even pacify a bunch of dirt farmers and goat herders

>>33003022
The USAF is incompetent. I'm certain everyone already knows this, as does the the US military also.

>>33002953

I like this. Shows how much trust the military and civilians have in common.

Could you imagine a US helicopter doing this somewhere? It would be a fucking shitstorm and some liberals would protest about how they could have killed someone.

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I heard the story of a MiG-21 pilot who got lost on low level flight training and then had to land on a highway, probably just tales though

also pic related

>>33003022
Are you a muslim living in the UK? Why can't you fucking complete a sentence?

>>33004338
damage control much

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Well, it is easy to get lost in a country that has seemingly endless steppes and when it has snowed, it may have been hard to follow and keep track of the road that you are following towards the airbase. That is, given you dont have a (working) navigation unit.

>>33004404
such a sexy aircraft

>>33002953
>Khazakstan has Attack Helicopters
>Khazakstan spends 1.1% of its GDP on Defence

>Canada has no Attack Helicopters
>Canada spends 1% of its GDP on Defence, and doesn't even meet the NATO minimum spending on Defence

WAKE ME UP

>>33004404
except not really because we have GPS now... and you can get some old phone or ipod to use it on for cheap

>>33004835
These aircraft are likely not equipped with GPS navigation.

>>33004776
Kazakhstan inherited a good chunk of Soviet military equipment when the USSR collapsed. At best their attack helicopters consist of unreliable, aging hinds.

>>33004835
Communist radiation prevents GPS from working in former soviet countries. And GLONASS phone apps are pretty rare.

>>33003022

To be fair to them:

They fly a lot of aircraft through the UK, either going elsewhere in Europe, training in the UK, or on deployment here. While the numbers permanently deployed here aren't that big, there are actually a lot of aircraft that spend time here.

The UK is in an unfamiliar environment to them. Compared to the UK pilots who will have trained here for most of their career, the US ones rotating through may be more prone to errors due to unfamiliarity with systems, facilities, terrain and conditions.

Especially for the USMC, a lot of the airframes are ageing, making them more prone to technical contributions to accidents. The average age of use combat aircraft is also rising in general ahead of the F-35 introduction and the new B-21 bomber.

Then again, it's also possible that the average US pilot is slightly worse. They simply have far more aircraft than the UK. Literally thousands of aircraft and helicopters between their services, so it isn't hard to imagine that they can't be as selective about pilots as they would like to be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_United_States_military_aircraft

>>33002953
>U2 accidentally penetrates Soviet Far East, radios for help, runs out of fuel and glides all the way back to Alaska with F104's as escort.

Happens to the best of us on a bad day.

http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/dobbs/maultsby.htm

>>33004868
I would think they have ADFs or some form of VORTACs

>>33002977
Very common in WW2, add that to the fact that airfields could change hands from one week to the other, and it was pretty common for aicracfts to land on enemy airfields.

>>33005778
I heard a story about a german plane landing on a british airfield accidentally because the flare codes for landing happened to be the same.

>>33004950
deosn't that make it look worse?

>>33004950
I know its just like they got a bunch of military surplus for free but it still irritates me.