NSW Government’s NPWS evil contract for helicopter operators to round #3 to cowboy slaughter of Australia’s legendary Snowy Mountains Brumbies –
Beautiful Australian Bronze Waler heritage, ancestry of the magnificent Light Horse legends of The Great War, yet sick politics is currently NAZI slaughtering 15+ helicopter slaughter round attempts in each via lazy aerial chopper front seat cowboys?
This is unnecessary and quite evil. Go figure!
Flimsy Robbie on Mogas outsourced by Parks Service (not its money) – but with the doors off…
So, in defence one could deploy a .303 British explosive impact detonation bullet targeting the helicopter’s tail rotor with one accurate shot, not bloody 15 cowboy pot shot attempts like some teen at some Luna Park. An effective LTE result would present flying control challenges for the helo pilot. This especially whilst flying in hilly terrain not convenient to flat clear grassy fields heading into wind.
But aerial slaughter of horses is teenage Luna Park carnival stuff. The hunt is hardly fair like hunting tigers or lions with a .22. Government funded cheats are low-life cowards.
Even more reliable…advocates protective of Australia’s heritage Bumbies against NSW Minns Labor Government helo mercenaries, need not be immuse to incoming ballistics from the tree covered ground bases.
A ground sniper can shoot down a helicopter, but it is an incredibly difficult task due to the target’s speed, distance, and evasive capabilities. Success typically requires a high-caliber anti-materiel rifle and a precise, well-placed shot into a critical area such as the tail rotor, the engine, or directly at the pilot, or the fuel tank, or tail rotor.
But reasonably, why not rather instead just facilitate the respectful re-homing of these magestic Brumbies. Parks Service NAZI Alex Graham you have no credibility!
Helicopters are perfect for saving lives, when no other means can.
Not a flimsy Robbie, but a serious gas turbine twin AgustaWestland 139 for properly saving lives.
…else if some helicopter pilot has an evil blood lust, then sign up to Duntroon with death wish ITT night goggles, or to Ukraine targeting Putin’s invading Russians! Good luck.
We don’t show dead animals here on this website.
Yet, no bodies, we show the before and after shots respectively of a helicopter.
Poor bugger. It was not the machine, not the pilot but unqualified Army’s involvement in pretending Army knows Airforfe better thath Air Force. Helicopters are an aviation skill set. Some fancy notion of night goggles that deprive pilots of peripheral vision is sheep directing sheepdogs. I recall a critical test to be medically accepted at Duntroon in 1987 with an Aviation cadetship. Glad I left.
So glad I quickly bailed in 1987 from that Australian Army substandard training disaster waiting to happen. I saw the incompence writing on the wall way back at RMC Duntroon in 1987. I am vindicted (sadly) from that Black Hawk tragedy of 1996. It could have been me I reckon by then. Fuck Army pretending to know what it is doing unqualified in Air Force space!
Food for thought, and this is not to incite further violence in anyway, but to encourage the pilots involved to rethink their mercenary involvement and to pull out of this wicked mercenary venture of the bloody government on these Australia treasures doing bugger all harm.
To leave their undead suffering carcases for feral pigs and wild dogs to savage while the horses are still alive. Fuck, this is so evil. We will find your names – the contracted helo operators and their pilots. Research has started. Watch this space.
– Steven Ridd, Commercial Helicopter Pilot (Endorsements: BGT, Low-Level, R22, Bell JetRanger (Kimberley, NT) and quarter horse Stockman out of my 20’s from Victoria high country).
Reading and Further References:
[1] ‘Australian Quarter Horse Association‘, ^https://www.aqha.com.au/
[2] ‘Black Hawk helicopter crash: 30 years ago, Australia had its worst peacetime military aviation disaster‘, 2026-06-12, by Jess Naunton, by Baz Ruddick, ABC media, ^https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-12/black-hawk-tragedy-thirty-year-anniversary/106781524
[3] ‘Loss of Tail Rotor Effectiveness‘ (LTE), ^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9rJPvJScho
[4] ‘New British Special Forces Rifle Can Shoot Down Helicopter ‘, Photo of Inder Singh Bisht Inder Singh BishtSeptember 28, 2021,
^https://thedefensepost.com/2021/09/28/new-british-special-forces-rifle/
“The British special forces have acquired 150 Gepard GM6 Lynx anti-materiel rifles capable of shooting down aircraft and damaging armored vehicles with one shot.
According to Daily Mail, Special Air Service (SAS), Special Boat Service (SBS), and Special Reconnaissance Regiment in Iraq and Syria are already using the Hungarian rifle.
Describing Gepard, one special forces soldier likened the rifle to a “howitzer” for its massive “punch,” despite weighing only 23 pounds (10.4 kg) at 4ft (1.2 m) long. “The rounds it fires can stop a truck bomb in its tracks. A team equipped with one of these could take out half a dozen very expensive fighters or helicopters very quickly,” he told the British daily.
The rifle’s .50-calibre bullet travels at 780m/second (2,559 feet/second) piercing a vehicle’s armor plating before exploding inside, the outlet added. The semi-automatic rifle’s magazine carries five rounds of .50-calibre or 12.7×108mm Raufoss Mk2 bullets that can be fired in three seconds. It costs 9,000 pounds ($12,300) and has a range of 1.25 miles (2km).
A Gepard GM6 Lynx anti-materiel semi-automatic rifle. [Image: Gepard]
According to manufacturer Sero International Ltd, the rifle, which can be paradropped and vehicle-mounted, generates 5-8 times more muzzle velocity (780m/ second) than conventional small arms and is capable of shooting down a helicopter at a range of 600-800 feet (1,968-2,625 meters).
Apart from aircraft and armored vehicles, the gun is used for destroying key targets such as “light shelters and buildings, radio-electronic construction, and missile launchers.”
