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...
1970s
alternate history
anti-tankanti-tankmissile
close air support
cold war
great britain
gunship
helicopter
helicopter gunship
helicopters
north atlantic treaty organisation
west germany
western europe
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...
Hello,
I searched the forum and haven't found a thread about this topic, and it appears no one has discussed it in any other threads either, so here it is. Anyway, a while ago I was perusing Andreas Parsch's website and I found mention of the apparently obscure Douglas Arbalist in the missile...
In 1959, the U.S. Army Ordnance Missile Command (AOMC) suggested the development of a medium-range heavy assault weapon. The Office, Chief of Research and Development indicated that no firm requirement existed for the weapon. In February, McDonnell Douglas Corporation began work on the BRAT...
1960s
anti-tankanti-tankmissile
ballistic research laboratory
cold war
late 1950s
mcdonnell
mcdonnell aircraft corporation
mcdonnell douglas
u.s. army
united states
united states army
1980s
air defense artillery branch
anti-tankmissile
battlefield air defence
cold war
early 1990s
faad
faads-los-fh
forward area air defense
france
los-f-h
north atlantic treaty organisation
spad
surface-to-surface missile
u.s. army
united states
united states army
united states marine corps
west germany
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