gonna need some source on that part, since as far as I know, Kurds use MANPADS to shoot down enemy helis. Then again, it's not as though it's impossible to shoot down a heli if it maintains low altitude, but for that the pilot must not know about you or be retarded, which is highly situational and is not going to help you in most cases.
Such toys have minimal range when it comes to actually setting things on fire (else you could just phase out anti-air missiles entirely in favour of lasers – they'd shoot down any aircraft at the speed of light and no flares or maneuvering would help them) and just being more intensive doesn't help you that much – consider how small the heli is gonna be when high enough, and consider you'll be under fire.
Isaiah Butler
Yeah, unless it has FLIR, like every military, coast guard, police and news helicopter does
Jason Cruz
except FLIR does not actually penetrate heavy foliage, so unless you're making your escape in winter, the forest canopy is gonna hide you from it
Jose Perez
Garage made Fliegerfaust.
Ryan Moore
The only reason blinding lasers aren't used in warfare is because of international laws, but guerilla warfare is 'illegal' by default.
Aaron Ross
You don't. You destroy or capture all refueling points (or better yet, destroy ways to bring in fuel) within operating distance.
Brayden Williams
You have to break the helicopter into the different parts that give it the danger. Helicopter, pilot and logistics. If one of these is missing the helicopter itself will not be a threat. If you are not able to down enemy helicopters through AA you might focus your efforts on ambushing supply convois and forcing them to waste their remaining fuel in long flight missions.
Asher Miller
Hey, he passed me before the news helicopter got there.
The news heli was the only heli in range to see it, and it almost lost it. One of the police helicopters was out of range, trying to catch up, while the other ran out of fuel and had to RTB.
Maybe in Czechlandia, Europe, but it sure as hell isn't thick enough in the hill country of Texas.
Samuel Wood
You have to remember that Turks are barely human so this tactic might not be effective on other countries helicopters.
While blinding weapons are banned via the Hague convention, no one who actually fights in wars has signed that piece of toilet paper. The real reason why they are not used is because they are expensive, delicate, take a lot of energy to use, and make you a giant glowing target for anyone who wasn't blinded by it. This is the same reason why blinding searchlight tanks used by the soviets in ww2 never worked out. Plus if you identify an enemy and can point a turret at them, it would be more useful to shoot them with a cannon than blind them with a laser. Also partisans are a war crime. Uniform guerrillas are not.
Video recognition has gotten good enough today that a dedicated autist could likely program a video-guided missile, one that is targeting the actual image of the helicopter rather than a signature. It wouldn't even have to be a large missile, just a rack of 3' rockets either pdfrelated or liquid fueled (amateur rocket forums have recipes). If anybody's good with either machine learning, or neural networks, or vector analysis programming
youtube.com/watch?v=QPgqfnKG_T4 Vidrelated is the guy who build a squirrel-shooter with Python and some servos, you could use similar ideas to ID helos and launch and guide the missiles. Only thing is that it'd have to be on-board, which ups the cost but Raspberry Pi's and arduino's aren't expensive really. We're talking a small shaped charge on as the payload, maybe like a 16oz EPF on top of a 2-stage, each 3 engine stage using G79-0T or something. youtube.com/watch?v=MHNgRbmhbeI Vidrelated is a good video of a single stage single engine G77 rocket. youtube.com/watch?v=YOz-HTimVfs Vidrelated is a multi-stage, engine-cluster rocket using 40n.s. engines (F's, probably).
