helicopter gunship

  1. uk 75

    NATO helicopter gunship for the 70s

    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...
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    • 1970s alternate history anti-tank anti-tank missile close air support cold war great britain gunship helicopter helicopter gunship helicopters north atlantic treaty organisation west germany western europe
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    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  2. uk 75

    NATO Cobras

    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...
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    • alternate history anti-tank anti-tank missile close air support cold war gunship helicopter helicopter gunship north atlantic treaty organisation
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    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  3. Hood

    Did George Orwell invent the Helicopter Gunship?

    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...
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