Killer Bees on Land: Airborne + Air Assault. Fire Force: Helicopter Warfare in Rhodesia: 1. Dr. J. R. T. Wood. In December 1. 97. Aйrospatiale Alouette III helicopter (configured as a troop- carrying "G- Car") was rocked by a volley of 7. Soviet aamunition used in AKM/SKS assault rifles/carbines] rounds at 8. Rhodesia. Flown by Flight Lieutenant Victor Bernard Cook, the G- Car was carrying a Rhodesian Army medic on a mercy mission to treat an African civilian, who had been wounded in a contact that morning.
The bullets, flashing up from a clearing in the trees, were fired by 2. Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) (supporting Robert Mugabe) whose base camp Cook was about to overfly.
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They severed the [unarmored] Alouette's tail rotor shaft and wounded Cook in the right foot and arms. His technician, Finch Bellringer, was semi- conscious after being hit by two rounds, which penetrated his body armour. The medic was mercifully unhurt but shocked.
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Vic Cooke told his story to Deon du Plessis of The Star (published on 1. April 1. 97. 7). Du Plessis wrote that Cooke (3. African civilians who had been injured. An army patrol was with the civilians, waiting for Cook to arrive. Cook was at 1. 00. He felt some rounds hit his aircraft, and, unable to see where the fire was coming from, took evasive action, plunging down to tree level. I leveled off but, I was still under heavy fire.
I was almost on top of them. A lot more rounds hit us. It was fierce. I felt the controls going, there was vibration. I realised I had to force land. The fire got fiercer.
I picked a place to land. Then I lost tail rotor control. The chopper swung violently. It would have started cartwheeling. I pulled it up on its tail to knock off forward speed. The speed came down but we continued to yaw.
Still I was quite pleased with what was happening as I had a semblance of control. I touched the power but could not hold it down on to its tail.
I managed to pull the nose up a little. All the time they were still shooting. Then I saw them. I thought: "There are about as many as a rugby team". OBSERVATION #1: had he been in a MD5. NOTAR- type helicopter he would not have had a tail rotor and shaft to lose; precluding the shoot- down from even happening at all. Coming in for a forced landing, Cook saw a group of about five terrorists standing ahead of him shooting.
Cook made his decision: "I aimed the aircraft at them deliberately. We thumped down nose first and I lost sight of them." As they landed, a piece of the control column came off in Cook's hand. The jar of the landing jerked Cook forward.
His jaw struck the top of the control stick, stunning him and cutting his chin deeply. His foot was badly gashed. Cook did not realise it and did not know how it happened. The engine was still running and I left it idling, hoping this would make them think we were all right." Cook's memory was hazy. His Uzi [9mm] submachine- gun had been hit and was useless. The barrel of the medic's FN [7. NATO] rifle was bent.
OBSERVATION #2: Armament on the helicopter itself must be able to be used on the ground away from the crash wreckage. A hard impact case for small assault rifles that can survive a crash are a must so they can be in working condition after crash- landing.
I knew the buggers were coming back. I needed a weapon. Then I saw this terr lying beyond the chopper. He may have been hit by the rotor when we came down. I don't know. But he had an AK[M] and all I knew was he was between me and that weapon. I grabbed his AK and shot him with it. He was shouting in Shona when I shot him.
I don't know what he was doing. I don't remember if we even struggled. I shouted to the medic and Bellringer: 'Run for the high ground'. I ran, but then saw they were not following me. I shouted again: 'Let's move!' But Bellringer said: 'I can't move'.". OBSERVATION #3: so much for not needing to be able to use enemy weapons.
EVERY Soldier needs to know how to use enemy weapons and the best way is to have each have a SKS or AKM as a back- up weapon that can shoot enemy ammo in a pinch when U. S. weapons/ammo are not avaiulable.
Bellringer had been shot while they were in the air. Together Cook and the medic dragged Bellringer to the higher ground. Cook then saw the terrorists moving in the bush 1. Cook ran forward and fired a magazine from his AK at them. I saw other movement and I bolted to another position and ripped off another burst." Cook then positioned himself between the enemy and his crew.
Then I went out further and did a few circuits of the chopper. The movement disappeared and I moved from tree- to- tree and rock- to- rock. I was in a good strong position.". Cook was "bloody angry" at being forced down, and wanted to pursue the terrorists.
He kept tripping, however, and only then did he see the deep gash in his foot. He could see the bone. After that I didn't feel so aggressive," he said.
He helped the medic erect a[n I. V.] drip stand on the wounded technician. Of the medical orderly, Cook said "He was a star. At no stage did he abandon his patient.".
OBSERVATION #4: ANGER is a virtue in war as it is in peacetime- -despite what Clinton PCophiles try to con you into acting like an excuse- filled victim of bureaucracy and circumstances. The Rhodesian Army unit, which had called Cook from Rutenga (in south- eastern Rhodesia) was close by and heard the crash and the firing. It summoned help. Fifty minutes later a Reims Cessna FTB 3. G "Lynx", twin- engined light aircraft, arrived overhead, to be followed shortly by the Fire Force.
Rd_vgj. GIWE. Cook and his crew were evacuated by helicopter and a follow- up on the tracks on his attackers was instituted. Cook recalled: "There were four brown jobs. They were a beautiful sight." Cook was awarded the Silver Cross but said he did not believe that he deserved it. Not when you see what the browns do. Those RLI guys, they are all Silver Cross material.". OBSERVATION #5: all our load bearing equipment (LBE) should be of a BROWN MULTI- CAM type camouflage color to be effective at concealing our troops like the RLI were.
For his gallantry, Victor Cook was awarded the Silver Cross of Rhodesia. Flying the helicopter came later in the life of the always small, if potent, Rhodesian Air Force. When the helicopter was adopted, its agility - its ability to hover, to land and take- off in almost impossible terrain - was exploited to the full by the Rhodesians in their counter- insurgency [sub- national conflict] war. Indeed the Rhodesians were to produce a unique and deadly variant of the [3. D maneuver] tactic of "vertical envelopment" of a target by helicopter- borne infantry, which they called "Fire Force". There was nothing new in the military use of helicopters.
As soon as helicopters were available, the air forces and armies of the world gave them a multitude of tasks. The first workable machines appeared in the Second World War - the American Sikorsky R- 6.
A and the German Flettner Fl- 2. Kolibri. Helicopters found general use thereafter. They were used for casualty evacuation in Korea and for moving forces to combat insurgents in Malaya, French Indo- China and in Kenya.
In Algeria, the French developed the use of armed helicopters, the first "gunships" (armed Alouette IIs) working with parachute troops and helicopter- borne infantry (carried in American Vertol H- 2. There was a clear need for helicopters in Rhodesia but almost all of the terrain was over 2,0. As height and heat drastically reduced the efficiency of helicopter [piston] engines, a special helicopter was required. Such a helicopter was to be developed by the French who took the lead early on in the race to design light turboshaft engines. The man of vision in France was Joseph Szydlowski, who founded the Sociйtй Turbomйca in 1. Second World War despite Nazi occupation of his factory.
By 1. 94. 9, he produced the Artouste Mark II gas turbine, which produced 4. The. American Boeing Company was working on gas turbines and one powered the first gas- turbine helicopter in the world, the Kaman K- 2. U. S. Navy, which flew on 1. December 1. 95. 1. Boeing, however, soon lost interest and left the field to the French.
In 1. 95. 3, the Artouste Mark II replaced the radial piston engine of the small crop- spraying helicopter, the Sud- Aviation (later Aйrospatiale) SE3. Alouette [Lark]. This gave it such a unique performance that Sociйtй Turbomйca became the leading supplier of small turbine helicopter engines in the western world.
The Alouette II had an open girder frame, an exposed engine, a skid landing gear and a bubble canopy. Aside from the pilot, it could carry four passengers, or two stretchers and two sitting wounded, or a 1,1. In June 1. 95. 5, this little helicopter set a new world height record by climbing to 2. OBSERVATION #6: the Killer Bee must be small and inexpensive enough to field in large numbers to create the desired massed battlefield effects. Turbomйca's next jet engine, the Astazou (derated from 5.
It doubled the load- carrying capacity of the Alouette II and led to even wider sales. The Indian version, the HAL Cheetah, landed and took- off at heights above 2.
Himalayas. In June 1. Alouette II set a height record for helicopters at 3. The arrival of the even more powerful Artouste engine (derated from 8. Alouette III, which first flew on 2. February 1. 95. 9 and was soon performing spectacularly.
In June 1. 96. 0, it landed and took- off with seven people on board at an altitude of 1. Mount Blanc in the French Alps. In November 1. 96. This was unprecedented in the world of helicopters. The Alouette III SA3. B could accommodate the pilot and six fully equipped troops.
The Rhodesian practice was to carry a technician and four troops [U. S. military: a fireteam] and to mount a FN 7. NATO] MAG [medium] machine- gun [after 1. Mk 2 . 3. 03- inch Browning Mk.
RAF's turret and wing guns of the Second World War] at the port rear door. The passenger seats were easily removed, allowing the carriage of a variety of different loads.