Killuminati
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Those are rotorcrafts with cannons designed to fly with assymetric payload in close ranges to destroy enemy assets. It is the nature of those crafts in COIN operations. With your logic, It is no need to integrate any cannons but just missiles. With this ways, the moving targets on rough/rocky/rivery/mountainous terrains can walk like they are in a playground. That’s not what we want in operations. It is the reason those crafts are protected against 12,7 and 7,62mm bullets on crew and engine compartments including main rotors...
Flying low and fast makes shooting on close targets (with a cannon) also very difficult. This is due to the speed of passing by objects/targets. We are not saying that we do not trust our pilots. We are only concerned about the risk that was taken because if there was indeed a heavy machine weapon stationed, it would not have cost a lot to hit the helicopter and kill the crew.
But the pilots know better indeed. Let's keep it that way and close this subject.