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Have been targeting an area in syria where an iranian drone had enterred israeli airspace. cnns ian lee is in golan heights. what are you learning about this confrontation? >> fredricka, this incident raises, escalates the tensions in this region, the golan hasnt seen this kind of tensions in decades. lets go through the series of events. it started in the early morning hours when the israeli military says an iranian drone infiltrated israeli airspace and an attack helicopter shot it down in ret...

That hes preparing improvised explosive device. looks like an injured person ok if you can see two legs and a body its actually a dummy. but. hes hiding improvise its those explosive devices beneath the dummy this is not the behavior of an i.d.f. soldier ok this is a gave off a terrorist wasnt explicit this is was an attack helicopter that we call the helicopter in order to attack the terrorist that is hiding here but since we didnt want him to hit the uninvited civilians the bomb here made almo...

Youre talking about combat jets, attack helicopters. one of the russian arms dealers showed me their newest attack helicopter called the mi-28ub, an upgraded version of one of their gunships that they have. they say the big thing for them is fewer export restrictions. thats one of the reasons theyre getting into markets that used to almost exclusively buy from the united states. youre talking, for instance, about egypt. they just sold the egyptians attack helicopters. turkey, a nato ally of the ...

Leland: it seems a little out there. >> well, it is. but, you know, thats part of the patent. however, though, the fact that theyre thinking that far out, how do you protect these things, heres my fear. theyre going to take so many countermeasures, theyre going to build these things up to where they start looking more like an apache gunship helicopter than a drone, and now weve got blue thunder and roy snyder, am i going to be seeing an attack helicopter i mistake for an amazon drone. its kind o...

With. in the movie, the reporters from the u.s. interview kim jong-un and embarrass him severely on international media and in front of the north korean people. he therefore goes after them to kill them and they flee and eventually get in a tank, thinking theyre safe. he attacks them with an attack helicopter, firing rockets and machine guns at them, and they finally say wow, wait a minute, were in a tank, we can respond and they fire a tank round at his helicopter and that does him in. so this ...

Give up, but the deadline passed with no sign the ultimatum was being heeded. instead, demonstrator appe-- demonstrators appear to have overrun another key building in ukrai ukraine. we have this report from donelsk. >> reporter: this should have been the moment when ukraines army moved in. instead, its pro-russian protesters marching on this police station. sort of unrest spreading quickly, daly to about ten towns now. the police chief peaten, an activist injured. one activist claimed all the p...

A brief sign of what must have been the ukrainian military over the citys center of donestk. one attack helicopter escorting another. but otherwise, the anti-terror operation ukrainian interim president pledged if protesters didnt surrender government buildings in the morning, nowhere to be seen. repeated deadlines passed from the ukrainian government for these protesters to leave these kind of buildings, but really there is no sign of anything other than them digging in for the long run here. o...

Radar equipment. he spent days looking across the border to see a what russians are doing. he seemed alarmed and said theres definitely a troop build up. he said on the radar, he had seen attack helicopter, tanks, missiles and artillery systems as well. we asked him, does that mean -- is that just drills or is this something bigger? he said i cant get involved in politics. he did clearly believe what was going on across the other side of the boarder bigger than military exercises. >> moving sout...

Fence trying to probe and caused them to panic a little and put alarms on and call everyone to the stations rate to defend and ready to bring a personal carrier close to the gates. at that point they pointed the heavy machine gun at the main entrance and the ukrainian soldiers loaded weapons and faced at russians who had loaded weapons faced back at them and suddenly it deescalated. at that point a russian attack helicopter circled the town. tensions still persisting. >> stopping short of pullin...

And it has two engines. this ones made by boeing. its been around since the 1970s. heres another one. keeping with the inexplicable american practice of naming all our attack helicopters after native american tribes. this ones called the comanche. i dont think they make this one anymore. but at one point it was going to be the next generation attack helicopter. the cobra has two blades on the rotor. the apache has four blades. this one has five blades. you can also see from its sort of angular s...