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IOF-linked reporter Barak Ravid says that the US helicopter was hit by an Iranian drone.
https://xcancel.com/BarakRavid/status/2064392995118411871#m
So fucking much to unpack here, the drone "got the helicopter to crash"? That's called shooting it down. and he's.... suggesting it could have been... accidental???
The thing you should know about Barak Ravid is that he served in IOF Unit 8200 at the age of 18. Unit 8200 is like Israel's version of US NSA. He reports the things that US/Israel wants you to think. He's employed by Axios.
Maybe the drone politely convinced it to crash?
The drone won the debate in the marketplace of ideas
speculation on a couple of military forums that the apache was tasked with shooting down a shahed but did so within the blast radius of the explosion, so the "great military" may have stepped on a rake with this one. i don't know if i believe it, but that could jibe with the tweet warning us pilots of "their own human error"
We all know how much the US military loves to crash helicopters into other flying vehicles over bodies of water
I kinda think they do tho
Gotta keep Raytheon's stock up and if they're shot down by enemy forces then Line Goes Down
It was an unscheduled expedited landing incident