Profile of Death's Head

great pictures , but you should choose just the ones you think are good so that the thread becomes good in quality and not in quantity : )

lol I can see your point, i'll do a bit of editing. Sadly there really aren't good resources for photos from this conflict so I had to take what I could find lol.

Oh the memories:

Happens way too often with friendly units....

This war also saw the only confirmed air-to-air helicopter battles in history with the Iraqi Mi-25s flying against Iranian AH-1J SeaCobras on several separate occasions. Not long after Iraq's initial invasion of Iran, in November 1980 two Iranian SeaCobras crept up on two Mi-25s and hit them with TOW wire-guided antitank missiles. One Mi-25 went down immediately, the other was badly damaged and crashed before reaching base. The Iranians pulled off a repeat performance on 24 April 1981, destroying two Mi-25s without incurring losses to themselves.

The Iraqis hit back, claiming the destruction of a SeaCobra on 14 September 1983 (with YaKB machine gun), then three SeaCobras on 5 February 1984 and three more on 25 February 1984 (two with Falanga missiles, one with S-5 rockets). After a lull in helicopter losses, each side lost a gunship on 13 February 1986. Later, a Mi-25 claimed a SeaCobra shot down with YaKB gun on 16 February, and a SeaCobra claimed a Mi-25 shot down with rockets on 18 February. The last engagement between the two types was on 22 May 1986, when Mi-25s shot down a SeaCobra.

The results of these engagements are disputed. One document cited that Iranian AH-1Js took on Iraqi Mi-8 and Mi-24 helicopters. Other sources report that the Iranian AH-1 pilots achieved a 10:1 kill ratio over the Iraqi helicopter pilots during these engagements (1:5). Additionally, Iranian AH-1 and Iraqi fixed-wing aircraft engagements also occurred. One source states that 10 Iranian AH-1Js were lost in combat, compared to six Iraqi Mi-24s during the eight-year war. The skirmishes are described as fairly evenly matched in another source. Iranian AH-1Js destroyed hundreds of Iraqi armored vehicles and other targets in the war. AGM-65 Maverick missiles were used in some operations.

The relatively small numbers and the inevitable disputes over actual kill numbers makes it unclear if one gunship had a real technical superiority over the other.

Lol if we are bringing videos into this:



Grens (this guy's voice and his whiney demeanor make these quotes):

0:02 "PaK crews have it easy, look at them always lounging around."

2:19 "Hans! Watch the back blast this time! My eyebrows have just started to grow back!"

2:45 "I'll behind that wall if you need me!"

2:50 "We don't care what you think! Beiber was a drecksack, and i'm glad he's dead!"

3:00 "Your stories are boring!"

3:06 "Like hell I cheat, you just can't play cards!"

3:11 "I think we will win eventually, yes...but I don't think any of us will live to see it."

3:16 "Before the war? I helped run a Bordello."

3:18 "My rifle, a pistol, two knives, 3 grenades and my dick. I'm always well-armed!"

3:22 'We had this girl back in Aachen who could do it standing on her head. And Singing!"

3:30 "Yes really, a whorehouse. The mayor was one of our best customers too, until we called in his credit."

3:35 "It's gone...the English bombed it last month...Peter do you have any of that brandy left?"

4:11 "If I were an officer things would be different!"

4:15 "I bet the Russian troops don't get fucked around like this!"

4:18 "I want a hot meal and a good beer too..."

4:25 "I suppose we'll just have to do it..."

4:33 "We have to do WHAT?!"