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Why did helicopters fall out of fashion?
Asher Martinez
Austin Peterson
Because they didn't.
Robert Miller
they didn't
Isaiah Fisher
Air assault is a failed doctrine with limited scope in both conventional and counter insurgency warfare. The use of Apaches as independent maneuver elements failed and they were shown to work better as fire support for ground forces.
Alexander Ramirez
I though they were designed to be tank hunters?
Did we just stop fighting anyone with the money to buy tanks?
Attack helicopters are just too expensive, limiting the targets it's sensible to use them against
Transport choppers are still vital to operating in mountains or marshes
Colton Nguyen
This
Helicopter failed because Apache was used wrong. It is helicopter fault not American fault. America numbawan!
Camden Johnson
I> though they were designed to be tank hunters?
>Did we just stop fighting anyone with the money to buy tanks?
That's exactly it
Chase Moore
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Chang go and stay go
Somebody get the Tiananmen square pasta up in here
Brayden Sanchez
>I though they were designed to be tank hunters?
Attack helicopters are designed to provide support for ground forces, they can wipe out armored columns but that's just one aspect of their mission. Attack helicopters have been aiding US and coalition troops in the ME since 2001, so not sure what kind of reddit spoon feed me shit the OP wants. They're lesser used in the high mountains of Afghanistan because they lose lift and are prone to stalling at low speeds though.
Carson Harris
The answer is to combine the two. So the Hind.
Benjamin Rogers
Because the 'copter has been outdone in every way by pic related
Liam Flores
This. They only "fell out of fashion" because we're no longer expecting to be fending off columns of Russian tanks storming the Fulda gap. They're still effective, but there are cheaper options for dropping bombs on goatherders.
Luke Jones
I think you might be an idiot
Lincoln James
>dakkas your flight path
Cameron Watson
What the fuck are you talking about.
Isaiah Robinson
Cause drones are starting to become a lot more cost effective for short range ground support. Most of the cost of a helicopter is training the crew to man it; replace that with a drone and make the training quicker, easier, and a lot more "capable" people to take the position.
Jonathan Ward
thats not a longbow you retard
Jose Parker
Uh-huh, including crashing and killing its crew right?
Matthew Ortiz
Why did the thread continue past this point?
Joseph Howard
well osprey is safer than any other non fixed wing aircraft in usa service, so yeah
Mason Wood
>V-280 Valor
>Crashes: 0
I don't see your point
Gabriel Mitchell
Longbow is for killing 16 tanks from behind a hill then flying away at no risk to itself. When is the last time we needed that?
Gavin Turner
>i never been in a car crash
>therefore i dont need seatbelts.
Ryan Mitchell
RIP the Comanche
Asher Lopez
It is still around.
Nathaniel Collins
Jonathan Cooper
tanks are obsolete
Ryan Rivera
You have small brain. Kill self
Matthew Collins
I don't have a brainlet meme that does your retardation justice
Evan Brown
They did?
Landon Cook
I fucking hate this face so much
Nolan Myers
Stfu faggot. It's cute as fuck and I want to bop that little nose with my finger and give those sweet little lips a kiss. Go back to sucking dicks
Isaiah Gutierrez
> 12 hull loss accidents that resulted in a total of 42 fatalities.
> safest non-fixed wing aircraft
Please show me the data for flight hours per fatality. Blackhawks, Huey's, Chinooks, etc. have been in service a lot longer so they'll obviously have more victims.
Gabriel Gutierrez
URG SAY KILL SELF, HAHA URG WIN
Noah Cooper
that thing belongs in
Aaron Parker
Please, unironically kill yourself.
Zachary Martinez
Carter Myers
Oh fuck a well formed sentence i guess im BTFO
Evan Richardson
Fuck you. I hate you go kill yourself dude you sound like a piece of shit bitch. I want to beat the shit out of you i could it so easily too. You sound like a little weak wimp trying to act tough on the internet. Fuck you pussy I'll beat you harder then you're daddy ever did before he left you alone with your whore mother. Fuck you fuck you
Luke Peterson
t. schlomo
Justin Sanchez
Yeah
Aaron Ramirez
Hey retard smooth brain. Please explain how tanks are obsolete?
Nathaniel Kelly
i am a little bitch boi yet you cannot touch me. I am mocking you with impunity.
Jordan Wilson
That's wrong you fucking idiot. I touched your mom and I'm going to again tonight. I'll be thinking of your little cuck ass when I blow my load in her stretched pussy
Oliver Jenkins
at some point you are running out of sand niggers to shoot hellfires on without a single way for them to defend themselfs..
Landon Fisher
well, no. after a decade the Taliban still control over 60% of Afghanistan. America just sucks at fighting wars
Jack Sanders
My mother is dead and cremated.
Whos mothers pussy were you stretching?
Nicholas Evans
Everyone in this thread should kill themselves
Samuel Hall
>Slap slap slap
>Splunk
That's the sound of me and your mom dude
You first nigger bitch. I just called you nigger lmao
Samuel Bailey
We could napalm entire countries but the ROE wouldn't allow that
Nathan Lee
CIA: Well congratulations, you got yourself caught. Now what’s the next step of your master plan?
Osprey: crashing this plane
Xavier Phillips
And he said
I'm in love
I'm in love with a helicopter
Yeah this is my confession
Gabriel Cook
>Because they didn't.
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