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Posted: 8/12/2022 2:37:40 PM EDT

Japan's Army Subaru AH-1S Cobra Attack Helicopter 20mm Gatling Gun M197 Cannon Live-Fire 800m JGSDF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM2gEkW8Vcw

Posted: 8/12/2022 2:43:20 PM EDT

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I definitely dig'em.

Posted: 8/12/2022 2:48:32 PM EDT

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Loved having the Corps' Cobras looking over us back in the day.

Posted: 8/12/2022 2:54:38 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/12/2022 2:57:10 PM EDT

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AH-64

Posted: 8/12/2022 2:58:34 PM EDT

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My boss flew both, and he says he liked flying the Cobra more. But if he had to kill people with it without being killed, the Apache is the answer.

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:00:33 PM EDT

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Preferred CAS platform. 10/10.

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:01:27 PM EDT

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The new Super's are sexy. They could have kept the whomp whomp, tho.

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:01:43 PM EDT

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Love it so much I bought that big model they used to sell

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:01:55 PM EDT

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You are correct sir.

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:02:08 PM EDT

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And his stories.

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:02:54 PM EDT

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Edit: or the little bird

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:04:33 PM EDT

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It does look deadly

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:05:27 PM EDT

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And his stories.

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And his stories.

^^^This^^^

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:06:48 PM EDT

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That was a really cool video though. Anyone know what they were saying?

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:07:23 PM EDT

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You are correct sir.

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It’s beautiful!!

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:09:16 PM EDT

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You are correct sir.

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Who was the Member here who was building them and smacked a BFL or something else on one in the factory or at DEPOT?

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:09:32 PM EDT

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Cobras are one of my childhood favorites. . .

<———- I’m kind of biased though.

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:10:25 PM EDT

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The Apache is an awesome piece of equipment but beautiful it is not.

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:10:43 PM EDT

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Vietnam-era Cobra is best-looking Cobra.

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:14:57 PM EDT

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Correct

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:16:18 PM EDT

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Cobras were cool to be around

I was in one of the last AH-1 units, 1/25 AVN Wheeler Army Airfield

Haiti 1995

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Posted: 8/12/2022 3:17:59 PM EDT

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I like'em!

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Posted: 8/12/2022 3:19:47 PM EDT

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My next door neighbor is a retired enlisted Army pilot, flew Cobras and Hueys in Vietnam. He then flew helos for the movie industry. He works rehabbing and restoring Little Birds for private owners now. Gets them time/ unit correct..he supplies them to the movie industry and lent a few out for training.

Here is one the shop/ hanger when I was there last, they have 4 going:

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Posted: 8/12/2022 3:20:20 PM EDT

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Listen, if we're posting Hughes 500s, I gotta post this:

RIP TC:

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:20:26 PM EDT

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You are correct sir.

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Those are Vipers, not Cobras

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:22:14 PM EDT

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I worked at a Huey/Cobra squadron when we were still flying the AH-1W. A few years later I was the ordnance chief at a training squadron and got a chance to fly front seat in a Zulu. I also got to shoot 500 rounds of 20mm and 19 HE rockets.

That was a cool fucking flight.

Thanks, Pink!!

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:24:56 PM EDT

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My next door neighbor is a retired enlisted Army pilot, flew Cobras and Hueys in Vietnam. He then flew helos for the movie industry. He works rehabbing and restoring Little Birds for private owners now. Gets them time/ unit correct..he supplies them to the movie industry and lent a few out for training.

Here is one the shop/ hanger when I was there last, they have 4 going:

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My next door neighbor is a retired enlisted Army pilot, flew Cobras and Hueys in Vietnam. He then flew helos for the movie industry. He works rehabbing and restoring Little Birds for private owners now. Gets them time/ unit correct..he supplies them to the movie industry and lent a few out for training.

Here is one the shop/ hanger when I was there last, they have 4 going:

https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/43992/lilbird001_jpg-2486516.JPG

Nice!

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:29:22 PM EDT

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I wanted to see it shooting at Godzilla.

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:29:53 PM EDT

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1 got to see up close what was purportedly the first Cobra to show up in Northern I Corps in '68. Looked all sleek and deadly to my young eyes.

Years after, I met a guy who flew them during the Easter Offensive. Had some great stories.

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:31:34 PM EDT

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A-10 Warthog
Target practice at 2:30
A-10

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:31:36 PM EDT

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One of the best parts of visiting my son on Pendleton was hitting the south end of Basilone by the airfield and watching the Vipers and Ospreys come and go.

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:34:16 PM EDT

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Vietnam-era Cobra is best-looking Cobra.

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Those are nice and slick, but I kinda prefer the lumpier later versions. Makes them look muscular. Like 10 pounds of whomping in an 8 pound bag.

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:34:37 PM EDT

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Bell 430 is prettier.

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:38:06 PM EDT

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Old Vietnam Cobras are my favorite helicopters. It looks beautiful and very deadly at the same time, like a shark or something.

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:38:45 PM EDT

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This one was used by the Italian Forest Service before being shipped back to the US and pressed into spray service.

PAT17091 Outbound by FredMan, on Flickr

N420AT Combustible by FredMan, on Flickr

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:38:58 PM EDT

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Many years ago I was on deployment and we were on a little spanish island doing live fire. My platoon was shooting two machine guns from one ridge across to another when a Cobra suddenly flies in the small valley at low altitude so we quickly ceased fire. We are all wondering what this guy is doing when he brings it in and lands on the small road between the ridges. Now we are really confused but, he proceeds to get out and then take a leak apparently unaware that we are even there and then gets back in and flies off.

Posted: 8/12/2022 3:53:53 PM EDT

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Always loved this one:

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Posted: 8/12/2022 3:54:21 PM EDT

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You are correct sir.

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They look extra badass with the Sidewinders mounted.

That KA-52 POS, is a pretty sharp looking Helicopter as well.

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Posted: 8/12/2022 3:58:17 PM EDT

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I think you are blinded by nostalgia. The Cobra and the Apache are both ugly. So is the HIND.

Posted: 8/12/2022 4:05:45 PM EDT

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I think you are blinded by nostalgia. The Cobra and the Apache are both ugly. So is the HIND.

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Posted: 8/12/2022 4:07:14 PM EDT

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I think you are blinded by nostalgia. The Cobra and the Apache are both ugly. So is the HIND.

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This

Thought the Zulus and the longbow are badass

Personally I think the 525 is very good looking

Posted: 8/12/2022 4:07:34 PM EDT

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this thread give me wood

Posted: 8/12/2022 4:08:10 PM EDT

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They look extra badass with the Sidewinders mounted.

That KA-52 POS, is a pretty sharp looking Helicopter as well.

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Super Hind looks pretty cool too

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The Tiger and Mangusta, along with most other country's attack helis are pretty fugly. Russia and the US do it well.

Some of Russia's transport birds, on the other hand...

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