Lowara Madi incident
| Lowara Madi incident | |||||
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| Part of the Pakistan-United States skirmishes | |||||
| File:AH-64 Apache.jpg An American AH-64 Apache helicopter, which was repelled during the incident | |||||
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1 AH-64 Apache Helicopter A Helicopter (Unknown Name) |
Pakistani Troops (Unknown Number Of Troops) 12.7mm Heavy Machine Guns | ||||
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| Possible Aircraft Damage | None | ||||
On 21 September 2008 at 10 pm local time, in the Ghulam Khan town of North Waziristan District Pakistani soldiers fired on two American helicopter gunships that entered Pakistani airspace with 12.7 mm heavy machine guns. The helicopters stopped and hovered for a while, before returning over the border to Afghanistan without retaliation. It is unknown if any of the helicopters sustained any damage in this first incident.[1][2]
Thirty minutes later, two gunships attempted to cross the border again at the same place. Pakistani regular and Frontier Corps troops fired warning shots into the air and away from the helicopters, causing the helicopters to turn back without attacking any targets in Pakistan.[3]
References
- ↑ Pakistani troops twice repel US choppers: officials Archived 2008-09-25 at the Wayback Machine AFP, 23 September 2008
- ↑ Pakistan troops 'repel US raid' -BBC News, 22 September 2008
- ↑ Pak troops fire at US helicopters in N Waziristan Archived 2009-07-07 at the Wayback Machine – ExpressIndia.com, 22 September 2008
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