A few issues….
The "Russian" Helicopters sure seemed to look a lot like U.S. helicopters (as though the effects people had some computer model files of U.S. copters but not Russian ones).
Hunters can kill deer by shooting them with rifles while flying aboard a copter, but Russians with machine guns, flying in copters, can't hit the side of a barn (or snowmobile). Like, man, they didn't even kill one token "redshirt".
The ship gets all sorts of weapons, including missiles shot at it, and it GETS HIT several times.
End of episode, crew on deck, not one sign of any damage from those explosions at all. A sort of poor attempt to show some rust, I guess, but no damage from all those Ex-BAY-sions. It's not like they stopped off anywhere for repairs in between.
On the flip side, the ship has what seem to be an automated Phalanx gun system. On the show, they let the attacking copters fly PAST the ship before even getting one shot off. In real life, the Phalanx guns would be firing while the copters were thousands of yards away, and destroying them before they got close. Those guns have been tweaked to try to take out MISSILES coming in very very fast, a relatively "big" copter (compared to missile size) coming in at 150 knots or slower would be like shooting fish in a barrel for those things.
- George Gassaway
