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In September, Somali militia used RPGs to attack U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters, damaging at least one that managed to return to base. Then, at 2 a.m. on 25 September—a week before the Battle of Mogadishu—the SNA used an RPG to shoot down a Black Hawk (callsign Courage 53) while it was on patrol.
Insurgents shot down two American Black Hawk helicopters with rocket-propelled grenades. When about 90 U.S. Rangers and Delta Force operators rushed to the rescue, they were caught in an...
- Sarah Roller
- Somalia was in the midst of a bloody civil war at the start of the 1990s. Somalia began to experience political unrest in the late 1980s as people began to resist the military junta that had been controlling the country.
- It was part of Operation Gothic Serpent. In 1992, President George H. W. Bush decided to involve the US military with UN peacekeeping forces in an attempt to restore order in Somalia.
- The aim was to seize 2 high-profile military leaders. The American military task force Ranger was dispatched to capture 2 of Aidid’s leading generals, Omar Salad Elmim and Mohamed Hassan Awale.
- US Black Hawk helicopters were shot down in the attempt. The ground convoys ran into road blocks and protests from the citizens of Mogadishu, setting the mission off to an inauspicious start.
Two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down by rocket-propelled grenades, leaving surviving aircrew at risk at the helicopter crash sites. Most of the troops fought through to the first crash site, but they were then pinned down under heavy fire.
Those raids, initially the kind soldiers train for routinely, erupted into a crisis when militiamen downed two Black Hawk helicopters using rocket propelled grenades. The 15-hour battle that...
Oct 5, 2013 · About 40 minutes into the mission, one of the Black Hawk helicopters circling overheard was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, spun out of control and crashed.
Feb 1, 2017 · Two US Black Hawk helicopters were shot down. In the ensuing battle, hundreds of Somalis were estimated to have died. Some 18 Americans and two UN soldiers were killed.
