Listen up hoss! If you aren't donating all of your disposable income to the police support organizations (after your NRA donation of course), you're wrong as cancer!
I just read that the hinds exhaust design that spat it out to the side well away from the rotor wash is part of what made it more succeptible to heat seekers.
That makes sense. From what I've read just about every Russian piece of hardware was a modified something else. Also speaking of modified helicopters, airwolf is a commercial helo with so much stuff tacked on it became almost too heavy.