Did a Helicopter ever shoot down a jet fighter?

[yasotay]

A bit of interesting trivia on the topic. Circa 1988 the U.S. Army published Field Manual (FM)1-107 "Air Combat" it lasted six months before being withdrawn from circulation and the maneuvers described there-in becoming forbidden from training.
It was learned early that the TADS of the AH-64A could lock a fighter aircraft with little difficulty, if the fighter was stupid enough to come down into the lower realms. If the fighter decided to try and turn with the helo(s) and bleed energy, they were susceptible to a AGM-114 shot. It was not the targeted Apache that got them, it was the three to five "wingmen" that the fighter had not seen.
Now, Apache D and E have air-to-air mode radar and are able to detect small UAV and larger aircraft. The limitation is that they still have a slow primary weapon.
@RavenOne - no comment

 

[sferrin]

A bit of interesting trivia on the topic. Circa 1988 the U.S. Army published Field Manual (FM)1-107 "Air Combat" it lasted six months before being withdrawn from circulation and the maneuvers described there-in becoming forbidden from training.
It was learned early that the TADS of the AH-64A could lock a fighter aircraft with little difficulty, if the fighter was stupid enough to come down into the lower realms. If the fighter decided to try and turn with the helo(s) and bleed energy, they were susceptible to a AGM-114 shot. It was not the targeted Apache that got them, it was the three to five "wingmen" that the fighter had not seen.
Now, Apache D and E have air-to-air mode radar and are able to detect small UAV and larger aircraft. The limitation is that they still have a slow primary weapon.
@RavenOne - no comment

Shame they don't have some of these:

http://www.ndiagulfcoast.com/events/archive/42ndSymposium/NavyPerspectiveStoneman.pdf

 

[BlackBat242]

USMC Cobras carried AIM-9s from the mid-1980s... on the AH-1Ws that entered service in 1986.

They did practice counter-fighter tactics at least enough to score at least one "kill" against a USAF F-16 in ~1987-88 - something we learned about at MCAS El Toro shortly after the exercise in which it happened.

 

[Colonial-Marine]

USMC Cobras carried AIM-9s from the mid-1980s... on the AH-1Ws that entered service in 1986.

They did practice counter-fighter tactics at least enough to score at least one "kill" against a USAF F-16 in ~1987-88 - something we learned about at MCAS El Toro shortly after the exercise in which it happened.

That must have been embarrassing for a fighter pilot's ego. Imagine being known as the guy who had the shame of getting shot down by a lowly helicopter.

 

[BlackBat242]

I remember that the USAF had missed that the Marine Cobras in the exercise were "Whiskey" models rather than the older "T" - thus there was no briefing about potential IR-guided A-A missiles in the OpFor.

 

[Lc89]

In 2001 an Israeli Apache helicopter used a Hellfire missile to shoot down a Cessna 152 from Lebanon that had violated airspace, even though it was not a fighter jet. A similar thing happened later in 2018, when an Iranian UAV from Syria was shot down with the same way.

 

[sferrin]

USMC Cobras carried AIM-9s from the mid-1980s... on the AH-1Ws that entered service in 1986.

They did practice counter-fighter tactics at least enough to score at least one "kill" against a USAF F-16 in ~1987-88 - something we learned about at MCAS El Toro shortly after the exercise in which it happened.

That must have been embarrassing for a fighter pilot's ego. Imagine being known as the guy who had the shame of getting shot down by a lowly helicopter.

Not when you consider a helicopter is basically a SHORADS - that can fly.

 

[Burgerman]

Hi,

did anybody hear about this event before ?.

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