BlackHawk Down is a 2001 war film directed and produced by Ridley Scott, and co-produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, from a screenplay by Ken Nolan.It is based on the 1999 eponymous non-fiction by journalist Mark Bowden, about the crew of a Black Hawk helicopter that was shot down during the Battle of Mogadishu.The film features a large ensemble cast, including Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Eric Youmay remember it as "Black Hawk down," a phrase immortalized on the battlefield in Somalia 20 years ago this past week. Super 6-1 was the call sign of the first Black Hawk helicopter to be shot Ithas been 20 years since 18 US soldiers and hundreds of Somalis died in a battle that saw two Black Hawk helicopters shot down over Mogadishu. TheBattle of Mogadishu as seen from the Somali perspective, filmed on October 3, 1993. Notice the flyby by an MH-6 Little Bird as well as a UH-60 Black Hawk towards the end of the video. Duringthis four-year conflict, over 300,000 Somalis died as a result of war-related casualties, hunger, and disease. 27 January 1991: General Said Barre's dictatorship comes to an end (USC), broke out, fighting between them resulted in the ultimate Battle for Mogadishu. The fighting between the two parties caused the United Nations to Thisarticle presents the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu . In October 1993, 160 U.S. Army Rangers and Delta Force soldiers were transported in helicopters and armoured vehicles into downtown Mogadishu, Somalia, on a mission to capture warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid and other commanders of his militia. But the US special forces raid went tragically wrong. Its what many former members of that unit now call the "forgotten" Black Hawk Down. No, not the famed Task Force Ranger and Delta Force Oct. 3-4, 1993 battle, but a crash that preceded 23October: 2022 Kismayo hotel attack. 29 October: October 2022 Mogadishu bombings: a twin car bombing in Mogadishu by al-Shabaab kills 121 people. [8] 27 November - November 2022 Mogadishu attack. 5 December: Somali forces and allied militias seized Adan Yabal from Al-Shabaab. [9] FILE- Somalis walk past debris after a suicide car bomb attack on a government building in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday, March 23, 2019. Al-Shabab gunmen stormed the government Thebattle erupted as part of Operation Gothic Serpent, a campaign in Mogadishu, Somalia, led by Army Special Operations Forces from August to October 1993. The fight involved units from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, the 75th Ranger Regiment, the Army's Special Operations Command, and the 10th Mountain Division. wfjC45.