Chase watched the monitor displays shift as the main turret traversed. Suddenly, the LAV's chain gun began to fire. Chase could see the bursts of smoke from the firing quickly swept away on the wind, followed immediately by a series of sharp flashes in the distance as the rounds struck their target. He couldn't see the helicopter itself against the high rock formations behind it, but the flashes and sparks of the rounds impacting marked it clearly. Light, flame, and smoke blossomed suddenly from the sparks, then were lost from view as the turret rotated to set up for the next target. Gordani slammed the LAV into another hard turn as ground views filled the left-side monitors.