On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 04:19:34 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:

As far as transport copters, the Iraqis had plenty of actual big Russian
transport copters, four-seat Bell machines aren't even going to rate.

4-seat?? I think that you'll find that Bell 214STs are considerably
larger than that!

Like those MiG-25s that were "still in service" buried under six feet of
sand, I suppose.

It gives an amagamated number for all of those helicopters, from all
nations. Some were no doubt out of service... but there's no evidence
that the American ones were particularly so.

Scott