Bell AH-1 Cobra

[BlackBat242]

You don´t conduct long range assault every days. I am pretty sure that a coordinated package departing from different locations can do the trick.
For the amphib equation., F-35 are already there.
For the US Army. A-10 can fly from nearly everywhere flat and paved. The Mohawk before did its fair share honorably.

The A-10 is not designed for rough-field operations. It can fly from highways in a pinch, but that was not the design brief. Mohawk was an entirely different class of aircraft.

Seems they can do it fine:

Yes - paved road = highway.

Bulldozed dirt runway = "rough-field".

Is the USAF or USMC going to fly in the asphalt & roller-vehicles to pave the bulldozed dirt in that "improvised-airfield near the front line" so the A-10 can use it?

 

[Grey Havoc]

From The Archives: Hellfire-Armed HueyCobra | Aviation Week Network

The cover of the issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology dated Dec. 16, 1974, shows an Army/Rockwell International laser-guided prototype Hellfire missile being tested on a Bell Helicopter AH-1G Huey Cobra at Los Angeles International Airport.

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[Mark Nankivil]

The Gerry Balzer collection just keeps giving. Attached is a proposed AH-1J Search and Rescue Variant - think Bell 222 made out with an AH-1J one night in the hangar and the offspring looks like.... Really badly stained paper print but worth the scan to share.

Enjoy the Day! Mark

 

[RAP]

Tried to clean it up some, removed handwritten notes.