Even we if consider “nearly all” as true (big if) they deliberately omit how much damage the ones that did get through did. “No signficant impact” means they admit there has been an impact that they would like to downplay the signifcance.
Yup. Several months back, there was an article that stated that a helicopter and other aircraft “sustained some damage”, with similar words of a minimizing effect, in one of the bases. When soldiers leaked images, the damned chopper in question was obliterated, nastily split in two, left beyond any possibility of salvage.
Even we if consider “nearly all” as true (big if) they deliberately omit how much damage the ones that did get through did. “No signficant impact” means they admit there has been an impact that they would like to downplay the signifcance.
Yup. Several months back, there was an article that stated that a helicopter and other aircraft “sustained some damage”, with similar words of a minimizing effect, in one of the bases. When soldiers leaked images, the damned chopper in question was obliterated, nastily split in two, left beyond any possibility of salvage.
The famous image was of an E-3 Sentry Aircraft, if that’s the one you’re thinking of.
Holy moly, seeing it again, it’s in worse shape than my memory served lol and it wasn’t even a helo either, ha! 😅