"Top 10 U.S. Military Helicopters Of All Times" Topic
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Tango01 | 07 Aug 2014 9:23 p.m. PST |
(Photo gallery) "NUMBER 1. BOEING AH-64 APACHE is a four-blade, twin-engine attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear arrangement, and a tandem cockpit for a two-man crew. It features a nose-mounted sensor suite for target acquisition and night vision systems. It is armed with a 30 mm (1.18 in) M230 Chain Gun carried between the main landing gear, under the aircraft's forward fuselage. It has four hardpoints mounted on stub-wing pylons, typically carrying a mixture of AGM-114 Hellfire missiles and Hydra 70 rocket pods. The AH-64 has a large amount of systems redundancy to improve combat survivability. An air weapons team of two AH-64D Apaches from the 1st "Attack" Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, come in for a landing at Camp Taji, Iraq, after completing a reconnaissance mission in the skies over Baghdad Nov. 6. Photo by Chief Warrant Officer 4 Daniel McClinton, 1st ACB, 1st Cav. Div." See here link Amicalement Armand |
GROSSMAN | 08 Aug 2014 11:29 a.m. PST |
I didn't know we had 10 helicopters, looks like another one of those "everyone gets a trophy" deals. |
Doms Decals | 08 Aug 2014 11:48 a.m. PST |
Huey at a preposterously low number 8 was as far as I read…. |
Prof Pate | 08 Aug 2014 2:05 p.m. PST |
Shame the Sioux scout isn't there. |
Major Mike | 08 Aug 2014 5:51 p.m. PST |
Huh, they don't even mention the Skycrane which set the altitude record for helicopters, could fly on one engine (it had two) and still is in high demand to do heavy lifting (away from the military). I can't believe they didn't include the OH-58, what would Lady Bird say about that, but did include the MH-6 (but never say that it's forerunner the OH-6 was used in Vietnam). It really seemed like someones opinion of what currently being used, oh, and well throw in a historical airframe at number 10 just to make it seem "offical". |
Legion 4 | 09 Aug 2014 6:17 a.m. PST |
I'm big fan of the AH-1 Cobra & AH-64 Blackhawk … And was with the 101 when we transitioned from the UH-1 to the UH-60. I was a Bn Air Ops Officer (S-3 Air)at that time … it certainly was a game changer … |
Lion in the Stars | 09 Aug 2014 10:16 p.m. PST |
That is soooo not the order I would have chosen. I'd have put the Huey at #1, for completely changing the mobility of the grunts. Can you imagine how Vietnam would have looked without the Huey? |
Legion 4 | 10 Aug 2014 7:26 a.m. PST |
Like the WWII campaign in the PI … with more firepower … of course … |
Deadone | 10 Aug 2014 8:58 p.m. PST |
looks like another one of those "everyone gets a trophy" deals. Actually not. A whole heap of birds aren't present – H-2, H-5, H-19, H-21, OH-23, H-34, CH-37, H-43, H-46, HH-52, CH-54, TH-55, OH-58, TH-67, HH-65, UH-72, HOS-1,HO5S-1, HNS-1 and HRP-1. Agree on Huey being too low and too much emphasis on modern types.
The Huey was truly revolutionary and also far more versatile than H-60 Blackhawk – after all AH-1 Cobra is a Huey spawn. And it was the mainstay of all 3 services and still serves today. Indeed it's still in production for USMC in its UH-1Y form.
It's also still built in Italy in its AB412 variant and is the mainstay chopper for many countries even it's older UH-1D/H and civilian B205/AB205/214 variants as well as twin engined ones ala HH/UH-1N/Y, Bell 212, Bell 412 and even super sized Bell 214ST. Blackhawk is nothing compared to the impact UH-1 has had on both US but also other militaries as well. |
Lion in the Stars | 11 Aug 2014 9:51 a.m. PST |
Good point about the H43 not being present at all. The H43 Husky was the first turbine-engined helicopter. Even though the projects were cancelled, I would have included the AH56 Cheyenne (first combat-capable compound helo) and the RAH66 Commanche (first stealth helo) on the list. I would also have included the OH6 'Loach' on the list, as it had a major effect on the Vietnam war, too. Hrm, reminds me, I need to get off my butt and make that "crashed Loach" objective for my Vietnam gaming ("That's a Loach. When you see one burning, that's where the enemy are.") And where's the QH50 DASH ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QH-50_DASH )? The drone, antisubmarine helicopter that the US used on the FRAM ships that were too small for a manned helo? Turbine powered drone, packing a pair of Mk44 torpedoes or depth charges to fly out to where the sub was detected and give minimal warning of an attack until the torps splashed? |
SouthernPhantom | 11 Aug 2014 10:17 a.m. PST |
Or, Lion, to go haywire and full speed in a random direction…that happened to one based off the destroyer my paternal grandfather was serving on sometime around Vietnam. The destroyer tried to chase it down; I'll let you guess how that went. |
Deadone | 11 Aug 2014 6:35 p.m. PST |
Good list Lion. I completely forgot about QH-50 as I seem to lose interest when it comes to unmanned systems. OH-6 should've been in there. MH-6 is a specialised variant whereas OH-6 saw massive service. |
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