SA342 Gazelle

紀錄

衝突關聯性

這是本目錄中此系統的唯一紀錄。它與下方的模組相關；各模組的Force Atlas會顯示它在該處的使用方式。

使用方

France: Flown by French Army light aviation in Serval's opening engagements; withdrawn from the Sahel with the end of Barkhane.

戰場角色

Serval's light attack helicopter in the January 2013 counter-offensive — low-level gun and missile runs against advancing jihadist columns in the campaign's opening engagements, where France took its first loss of the intervention.

優勢

Small, quick to deploy by transport aircraft and cheap to keep flying from austere strips; precise enough with the HOT missile and the 20 mm cannon to engage vehicles in the open, which is what the January 2013 engagements required.

限制

No armour and no defensive systems: the pilot killed on 11 January 2013 was hit by small-arms fire during a low-level attack, and the type was soon overshadowed by the Tigre for armed escort. Historical only.

外觀識別

A small, slim helicopter with a shrouded tail rotor set into the fin and a rounded glazed cabin; the fenestron tail is the identification.

有文件記錄的衝突使用

Engaged the jihadist columns around Konna on 11 January 2013 in the opening hours of Serval; the French Ministry of the Armed Forces announced the loss of a pilot in that engagement, the intervention's first fatality. Historical only.

軍種與兵種使用方

• Serval行動 歷史上相關