When doing one part of your task will stop you from completing the task entirely.
This is an example of a Catch 22.
Helicopters earmarked by the Ministry of Defence to help British troops in Afghanistan will not be able to fly on combat operations because they are not armour-plated, senior RAF sources have disclosed.
There is no factory armor for the helicopters. Custom armor will take months to fabricate in the numbers needed. Any armor will weight the aircraft down and take away its payload capacity and even possibly make it unsafe to fly.
I’m sure that these guys would like to put a stop to the war until bulletproof Nerf suits were developed and made available to every soldier as well.
They should just tell us up front that they don’t want their men and women to fight.
Jeebus! In ‘Nam, the crews flew the choppers sitting on their flak jackets.
Helicopter crews live or die in hostile fire zones because of their experience in getting in and out quickly, not on how well their bird is armored.
The Sovs tried to armor some of their Hinds and the Stingers we provided to the Mujas still took them out, as did the Sov version of the Ma Deuce.