Reports of Oryx hit by Ground Fire in DRC

I am curious whether it is still the same three Oryx's deployed to MONUSCO? IIRC, 826, which isn't named in the article came into contact when operating during a hot extraction. Even though MONUSCO is on a slow withdrawal due to protests I don’t believe our air assets had already been withdrawn. I won’t know.

The second question is the mission? All the article states is that 821 was in return to Goma. That place is very volatile now, and CAS would be essential. The third question is, knowing that both Russia and Ukraine have withdrawn some deployments to the UN, are any Russian assets still deployed to MONUSCO to support these roles?

We are supposed to have three Rookvalk's stationed at Goma, but all other air assets to my knowledge are Russian which may have been withdrawn. The mission roles can very possibly be reduced at this time. In my view, it is best to get out at the soonest, the withdrawal is already in progress.
 
porchrat said:
I don't want to see what Captain Africa looks like.
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N24 (paywalled) says sniper shot (Draganov?).
 
Oldfut said:
N24 (paywalled) says sniper shot (Draganov?).
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I thought that in an earlier post where I posted pictures of the shot placement. A single shot very accurately placed on the pilot side window. Looked like they knew exactly where to shoot, but as someone else posted it could have been a lucky shot.
 
Wut said:
I thought that in an earlier post where I posted pictures of the shot placement. A single shot very accurately placed on the pilot side window. Looked like they knew exactly where to shoot, but as someone else posted it could have been a lucky shot.
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True but elsewhere I read that this was quite a regular flight that took no or little evasive action against ground fire. Vulnerable as it seemed to have to pass high ground to land at a lower elevation.
 
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