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The helicopters may be leaving to protect their navigation
electronics from radiation damage. Some bombers maintain a
redundancy using old ferrite core memory from the 60's.
Supposedly this was a lesson learned in WWII electronics.
There's a movie based on the discovery of tube based electronics in
a soviet fighter "collected". It took a while for the CIA, whoever,
to realize the Soviets were not backwards!