Used US Army helicopters for Tunisia (military)

[Slater]

I was under the impression that these are quite old helicopters, but evidently there's still some use to be made of them. Isn't the OH-58D somewhat vulnerable on the modern battlefield?

http://www.dsca.mil/sites/default/fi...isia_16-28.pdf

[Taiko]

I may be 30 years out of date but what helicopter isn't vulnerable on the battlefield? It is tactics and the combined armed teams covering them which keep them in the air, forget that and you have Blackhawk Down

[Cryptic]

Originally Posted by Slater

I was under the impression that these are quite old helicopters, but evidently there's still some use to be made of them. Isn't the OH-58D somewhat vulnerable on the modern battlefield?

It depends on who the enemy is and how the helicopters are being used.

For example, attempting to use them as anti tank helicopters against say, Germany is probably not going to work. Using them as scout and infantry support helicopters against insurgents from the global jihadi terror brotherhood is probably very feasible.

[Unsettomati]

Originally Posted by Slater

I was under the impression that these are quite old helicopters, but evidently there's still some use to be made of them. Isn't the OH-58D somewhat vulnerable on the modern battlefield?

http://www.dsca.mil/sites/default/fi...isia_16-28.pdf

It's also worth noting that for Tunisia, the 'modern battlefield' isn't going to entail some face-off against some major military - such as Russia, just to use an example.

Tunisia has no force-projection capacity whatsoever, and their only neighbors are Libya - a basket-case of a government that can't even control a majority of Libyan territory - and Algeria - a country far more concerned with their eastern neighbor Morocco than with Tunisia. Neither is likely to come into conflict with Tunisia.

So the Tunisian military's primary reason for existing is domestic security, protecting the state from Islamist forces and other anti-government movements. And in any conflict with such groups, the Kiowa is going to be vastly more modern than anything the other side is bringing to battle.