And all this mattered little for the Cold War. No fighter aircraft would be circling the FOB to hunt for helicopters and few helicopters could hope to survive crossing the FOB. And there comes the difference in doctrine. The US believed that the USAF could open gaps in the defences of the WarPac, so that attack helicopters could exploit the gaps and cross behind enemy lines. The rest of NATO favoured a more defensive doctrine, which meant helicopters were to stay behind friendly lines and move in the way of the WarPac attacks and blunt them together with ground forces. Later even the US believed that this would not work and added the OH-58D as scouts for the attack helicopters, which would be used as launch plattforms for ATGMs, launching behind friendly lines.
Catching Hinds was the domain of the ground attack planes, like the G.91, Jaguar or A-10.
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