RE: What exactly is combat?
Once in a while, you can get even weak string wrapped around the front bearing of an engine. It's annoying, but easily fixed in the field. It's most common as a result of a mid-air, but it can also happen if you just hit the string itself. As Darin said, it doesn't happen often enough to be a big deal, most of use just look at it as just another hazzard of combat.