helicopter gunship

I thought I'd post about this sense nobody has. Guns: 20 mm M197 electric cannon Rockets: Hydra 70 Missiles: Type 91 Kai air-to-air missiles (SAM-2B), Type 96 multi-purpose missile system (MPMS, ATM-4) Hardpoints: 4× hardpoints under stub wings Dimensions: ~13.2 m length, ~3.8 m height, 12.4 m...

As some of you will know I inhabit a version of the 1970s where all my favourite stuff entered service. One of these is the AH56 Cheyenne helicopter. This machine looks futuristic even half a century later.

I've been looking for some trialled weapons on the bo-105 helicopter and I just can't seem to find any images of the stinger pods mounted on the chopper. Any help would be appreciated.

Although the excellent AH1 Cobra was deployed to Europe in the 1970s and received TOW missiles to help it kill Soviet armour, noone else in NATO could afford it. That left W Germany sticking six HOT missile launchers on its Bo 105 light observation helicopter and the British Army SS11 missiles...

The US Huey Cobra was a formidable gunship helicopter. Unlike the later Apache which has found widespread use.with NATO, the Cobra did not get much NATO use. West Germany should have been a major user. TOW equipped Cobras would have added much to Bundeswehr units. Instead the Boelkow B105...

In this era of access denial and long range fires, it appears that air and amphib assault is harder than ever. Given sufficient resource advantages such attacks is still possible, but what is the best way to do it? Old Ways: Turboprop/Jet transport with parachutes Helicopters Near Future...

Knowing how popular helicopters are here I thought I would try this one out. In the 1970s the US cancelled the futuristic but troubled Lockheed AH56 Cheyenne in favour of a new competition which Hughes won with the Apache leaving modified Huey Cobra variants designed for Vietnam to serve well...

Hello gents, Just found this on the net, needless to say i was jawdropped. Like other such romanian projects, not much information is available. The IAR-318 (if that is the real name!) is an 1980s project, it uses the IAR-330 Puma's engines and drive train but it has a new fuselage. It is not...

Did George Orwell invent the concept of the helicopter gunship in his novel 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' which he wrote in 1947? "April 4th, 1984. Last night to the flicks. All war films. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused...

Stephen Trimble's last revelations http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2009/05/bell-helicopter-reveals-hybrid.html Bell Helicopter reveals "Hybrid Tandem Rotor" to replace AH-64 and UH-60 The mysterious sign in Bell Helicopter's exhibit space today at the Army Aviation Associaton...

Folks, Does anyone have a 3-view drawing of the Bell Model 207 Sioux Scout (see below)? regards, Greg

Hi, the Bell T-37 trailing-rotor project. http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1965/1965%20-%200898.pdf

And what was that project for Bolkow ? from; http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1964/1964 - 2966.pdf

Not a new idea by Sikorsky : This ABC UTTAS proposal was shown in Air & Cosmos 12.1968 (No design/type numbers given) :

A more elegant, nevertheless quite unusual concept fom Bell: A tandem stowable rotor. (from AviationWeek 5/67)

Boeing/Sikorsky team

In this Lockheed advertisment the AH-56 is shown with an additional outline, giving a deeper fuselage and it is advertised to be the basis for a transport for up to 30 passengers or as a ASW helicopter. Are there any other pictures, drawings or photos of mock-ups of these versions ?

CL-1700

S-71 - Proposal for AAH (won by Hughes AH-64) based upon S-70 (UH-60 Blackhawk) rotor system. Not built. http://aerofiles.com/_sik.html