Apache Friendly Fire 1991
The footage about the friendly fire happened in 1991 in Iraq resulting the the death of 2 US troops.
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but i guess it had a blast/fragmentation warhead - anyway, they had a lot of luck....
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The strange thing is this : they hit the armored vehicles with hellfires and they blown up but most the crew just wounded , didn't die..is this luck? Does the hellfire has little effect or the vehicles have very high durability i couldn't choose...
The AGM-114 Hellfire utilises a "shaped charge", or HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) warhead, which creates a jet of plasma can slice through thick armor. As most heavy armor (tanks) are cramped inside and firmly clamped shut when hit, the overpressure caused by this plasma jet forcing it's way inside can be great enough to instantly smash the crew to pulp (as well as disable the vehicle intenally, which sometimes will look almost undamaged from the outside after the fact). Light armor (like the M113 and M2), however, is a different story.
Light armor ruptures more easily than a comparitively more rigid tank, which can lessen the overpressure effect. Also, many armored vehicles, light and heavy alike, have hatches, body panels, doors, and even weapon turrets that are designed to "blow-off" in such an event, which further increases crew survivability --- this is most likely what spared the survivors.
So, whether the Hellfire blows it's target to bits, or simply immobilizes it, it can pretty much "stop" anything.
well said and written, i hope that clears up some questions around :-P
The strange thing is this : they hit the armored vehicles with hellfires and they blown up but most the crew just wounded , didn't die..is this luck? Does the hellfire has little effect or the vehicles have very high durability i couldn't choose...
The AGM-114 Hellfire utilises a "shaped charge", or HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) warhead, which creates a jet of plasma can slice through thick armor. As most heavy armor (tanks) are cramped inside and firmly clamped shut when hit, the overpressure caused by this plasma jet forcing it's way inside can be great enough to instantly smash the crew to pulp (as well as disable the vehicle intenally, which sometimes will look almost undamaged from the outside after the fact). Light armor (like the M113 and M2), however, is a different story.
Light armor ruptures more easily than a comparitively more rigid tank, which can lessen the overpressure effect. Also, many armored vehicles, light and heavy alike, have hatches, body panels, doors, and even weapon turrets that are designed to "blow-off" in such an event, which further increases crew survivability --- this is most likely what spared the survivors.
So, whether the Hellfire blows it's target to bits, or simply immobilizes it, it can pretty much "stop" anything.
flip...my comment about getting what he deserved is in reference to his disobeying orders, not the fratricide. Regardless how the report was written, he did have to get any clearance to fire on the vehicles. Rather they simply followed up on a sighting, confirmed what they were looking at (in this case the wrong direction) and took the shots. No ground commander had to 'authorize' the engagement. The ground commander simply relayed the sighting information and confirmed what they were looking at. He just didn't know that they were not actually looking at the same thing. Sadly, these things happen in war and there's little that can be done about these kinds of incidents.
http://www.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=gao&docid=f:os93004.txt
"Our investigation revealed human error to be the primary cause of the
February 17, 1991, fratricide incident. The Apache Battalion
Commander, who led the team of three Apaches, read the wrong grid
coordinate on his navigation system while flying as copilot/gunner.
As a result, he misidentified the target vehicles' location as being
north of the line of friendly vehicles and in the exact location of
one of the reported enemy sightings. Relying on this erroneous
information, the Ground Commander authorized the Apaches to engage
the targets."
Tragic.