Posted on 01/23/2018 7:50:51 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Where can I get one?.......................
I could use one to get my mail.
I could use one to suppress those pesky ground rodents in the north field area.
In other news, we have redeployed A-10s to Afghanistan....
I want one.
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So ... it’s okay to sell a fleet of AH-1W Super Cobras on the international arms market ... but a U.S. citizen can’t have an old M16 because it is fully automatic ...
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Oh, We *can* have...it’s just that the beast created to defend our Rights is instead infringing upon and suppressing a myriad of ‘em instead.
So ... it’s okay to sell a fleet of AH-1W Super Cobras on the international arms market ... but a U.S. citizen can’t have an old M16 because it is fully automatic ... “
Heck, where are those surplus 45 ACP 1911’s they owe us?!?!?
If you have over a 30 or 32 inch waist I doubt you’d be able to fit in the seat.
Any larger than that and you’d need a can opener to get out.
I probably couldn’t get thru the door...............
I want to buy 6 of them, paint them different colors and race them as part of the EQABHL. (EQAndyBuzz Helicopter League)
I just want to paint them like ICE patrols and fly them all around......................
Why not ipgrade to the common standard? The AH64 Apache? Commonality and leading edge tech, so why buy another (legacy type) airframe?
Is the rift between Big Green and Corps so deep and wide?
If the USMC is interested in firepower survivability and lethality, the 64 covers that niche well- if they don’t want all the bells and whistles ( long bow stuff) then a base 64 with guns and rockets and missiles would be cheaper than building a new platform, no?
Edumacate me.... Is the 64 too much bird, too costly, too capable for the MAGTF/MEF?
One last point- In AGF, we had to rely on slick cobras in the mountains, guns only, and almost no loiter because they could not lift themselves and any significant combat load in the thin air. Apaches came fully heavy and had plenty of loiter ( fuel as well). You can get a S-cobra to go as fast as an Long bow loaded/Apache if you disarm it....
Naw, as an old AH-1 Armament Dawg, I’m here to tell you that we had plenty of fat Warrant Officers in our F models.
Apache has had some horrific problems operating in an marine (as in ocean) environment, for starters. The AH-64A was evaluated in a naval role by multiple countries including the UK, Canada and Japan as well as the US. While the US program was cut short by lack of funding, none of the other countries found the chopper held up well in a seaborne environment and scrapped the idea.
The AH-64D version has had some interest in trying it again - the US has trialed it on multiple Navy ships in 2013 and the Brits flew them off HMS Ocean in 2011 during their operations in Libya, but again nobody seems to think this would be a good idea long term. The Brit version that’s built under license/from kits is even navalized and has folding rotor blades for use and storage on RN vessels, but that hasn’t worked out that well in practice.
Another issue is logistics - the Viper has commonality with the current Huey variant in service today (which itself is recent) and a lot of other USMC rotorcraft. Less parts to stock or haul around.
Did you have to use a can opener to remove them from the cockpit?
LOL! still LOL as I type ...
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