[Red Badger]

Where can I get one?.......................

[SgtHooper]

I could use one to get my mail.

[so_real]

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 ...

[trebb]

In other news, we have redeployed A-10s to Afghanistan....

[tomkat]

Want

One

!

[Manly Warrior]

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?

[Manly Warrior]

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....