"Well I would feel unsafe flying an AH-64 though because on lucky bullet to the tail rotor from an ak47 will give you a bad day."

So I'll fly a Ka-50

"except that the AH-64 is more survivable than the blackhawk. The Apache is designed to withstand combat damage. If it can have an entire engine shot off and 23 mm bullet holes (which are explosive) through EACH rotor blade and still fly, I have a hard time believing that a 7.62 mm non explosive round is going to do spit to the tail rotor. The whole dang thing is armored up the wazu, it's essentially a helo A-10."

Despite all the armour, small arms fire hitting at the right (wrong?) spots has been responsible for writing off many a/c.

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Originally posted by Alfa_Kilo:
Despite all the armour, small arms fire hitting at the right (wrong?) spots has been responsible for writing off many a/c.

Yeah, the Golden BB. Well, if you have enough BBs flying at you, some are bound to be "golden".
The ah-64 can still take a beating, though. I read some stories from afghanistan in AFM about an apache taking a direct hit from a RPG and being able to continue fighting or make it back to base. Either way it was still flyable. If had to go to war in a helicopter, it'd definitely be the apache.

True, the AH-64 has great protection, but the Mi-28 and Ka-50 are even more heavily armoured.


Ka-50 has an ejection seat while the Mi-28 has an escape system which blows away the doors and inflates air bags so that the crew can bounce away to safety (provided they have sufficient alt.)