Alan C. Mack

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1,629 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 17 Sep

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Well, I was thinking about this this morning, actually.

You were?

I was.

Every aircraft, special operations aircraft in particular, have countermeasures, right, for...

So every weapon that's out there designed to take down an aircraft has what's called a probable kill ratio or a PK.

So let's say a man pad is fired at you, blue sky background, no terrain between you and the thing, and no countermeasures.

It probably has a probable kill of like 99%.

Oh, geez.

Right?

So you add countermeasures like flares or lasers or any of that stuff that they're using nowadays.

Yeah.

And the probable kill ratio drops to like 20%.

And then if you add technique and tactics to it, you might get it down to, you know, 1% or no percent.

Plenty of times.

Ah, funny.

But I did have two... In 2001, I had two MANPADS fired at me on the single day.

I was flying General Frank's into the embassy in Kabul when we took it back over in December of 2001.

And it was a daylight flight.

And what we think was an HN-5, which is a Chinese variant of the SA-7, was fired at us.

It went right between my aircraft and Chalk 2.

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