Fighting on the Frontline

Choppers (1x1)

Ημερομηνία προβολής: Σεπ 25, 2011

The Fighting on the Frontline team are the first documentary crew ever to follow Apache attack helicopter pilots in a war zone. The pilots speak in detail about a job that until now has been shrouded in secrecy. This first episode follows the Apache helicopter crews as they take the fight to the enemy in Helmand Province. The Apache is the deadliest, most technologically advanced attack helicopter in history and it costs £46m per aircraft. Together with the Chinook helicopter crews who fly to rescue injured soldiers, the crews talk about what it is really like to wage war from above in Afghanistan, which is, for them, as dangerous, brutal and raw as war ever gets. Apache pilots describe the moment before they pull the trigger and how they try to stay emotionally detached from what they're doing: killing. They are filmed as they fly on operations into the 'Green Zone', to hunt Taliban. Footage from the Chinook medical rescue missions emphasises the alarming number of troops being blown up by Improvised Explosive Devices. And the cameras are there as Chinooks race again and again to the rescue of yet more casualties of war.