Anonymous ID: ce1258 May 23, 2023, 8:34 p.m. No.18893936   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3940 >>4544

>>18893873

>used to down Seal Team 6.

 

"There were a total of 38 individuals onboard Extortion 17. Seventeen were Navy SEALs, 15 from the Gold Squadron of the Special Warfare Development Group – better known as SEAL Team 6.

Other passengers onboard Extortion 17 were Navy Special Warfare support personnel; US Air Force, Army Reserve and Army National Guard members; Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) commandos and an Afghan interpreter. This equaled 30 US military personnel and eight Afghan nationals."

 

"At approximately 2:30 AM, Extortion 17 began to make its descent toward the landing zone. When it was between 100-150 feet off of the ground, traveling at only 58 MPH, unseen enemy fighters emerged from the tower of a two-storey building carrying rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launchers on their shoulders.Two rounds were fired at roughly the same time.

The first round missed the helicopter, but the second hit one of the rear rotor blades, exploding and severing it 10 feet in. The rear pylon of the chopper was ripped off of the fuselage, due to the spinning rotor assembly’s torque imbalance. The forward rotor system was also torn off, and less than five seconds after the second RPG round hit, Extortion 17 spun uncontrollably.

The helicopter crashed into a dry creek bed and exploded into a mass of fire upon contact. Everyone onboard was killed instantly."

 

https://navyseals.com/5636/downing-of-extortion-17-the-single-deadliest-incident-of-the-us-war-in-afghanistan/