The Marines are amazing at just how much life they get out of equipment (probably because they’re always underfunded). I swear you could send an MEU ashore with Sopwith Camels, 1903 Springfields, and Krag-Jorgensens, and they’d still kick every ass in sight.
I always wonder if the engineers who design things like the original Huey and Cobra ever imagined “their” designs would still be in active service long after they retired?
}:-)4
So the new Cobra, I mean Viper, is more like the Apache?
Probably requires less maintainence time per flight hour though.
Couldn’t just buy Apache’s??
Nasty looking critter!
Imagine that, it closely resembles the Cobra. They are going back to the thinner, longer design, which makes for a much better gunning platform.
I used to marvel in awe at what the Cobra’s were able to do, in terms of striking outright panic and fear in the enemy when ever they showed up for duty. Just one could turn a 40 acre area of jungle, into a biological desert in mere seconds.
ping
Still, one badass helo...
Just a fattened-up Cobra.
I wonder how it would do hunting elk.
.
1st Air Cavalry Division Photos 1965-66
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
.
Once a soldier and young,
...They are still soldiers
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=66978
.
Click on pic for past Navair pings.
Post or FReepmail me if you wish to be enlisted in or discharged from the Navair Pinglist.
The only requirement for inclusion in the Navair Pinglist is an interest in Naval Aviation.
This is a medium to low volume pinglist.
Aren’t the Indians evaluating the Apache?