GoMig-21
Elite Member
Yeah it would've helped to have digital terrain-mapping & imaging, which is what most newer helicopters have standard, especially attack helos and if not, they get upgraded with them especially if flying over mountainous terrain like that.
Even boats have underwater topographic imagery technology that comes in a range of capabilities. I have a Garmin GPS/fish-finder and it has some underwater topographic maps already built in it and you can even upgrade the Micro-SD card for more advanced maps. I can even overlap my radar onto my navigation map so that I have the best of both worlds on the screen and I do that especially when I'm in heavy fog with barely 20-30 meters of visibility. Heck even the Russians are using simple GPSs in some of their older Su-24s & Su-25s that lack that stuff. So it's not like just because the helo is old and these instruments aren't built in that there aren't thousands of other simple and relatively inexpensive options. But I don't believe that's the case.
No way is it fair to assume this professional military outfit isn't aware of all of this and then some. That's ridiculous and I would be the last to ever imply such a thing.
Which is why because of all the things we know for sure so far, it seems more likely this was either pilot error or a technical failure of some kind which happens even to the best of the best.
Hey that's just old school stuff, man. Nothing wrong with that and the only thing I would add is whatever failures occurred in this unfortunate event could've happened to anyone and there is no doubt that it'll be a learning experience and there will be major changes and improvements made.
