Originally posted by: Qianglong
The Russian Mi-24 hind is the best helicopter EVER!!
Originally posted by: TehMac
So I was recently talking to a Marine Iraq Vet, and he was telling me how the pentagon is thinking of doing away with hummers and just using those Vietnam jeeps instead, with a gatling gun or a M240 mounted on top instead. This way, its fast, its armed, and it won't get blown up by IEDs.
It'll be much faster, and won't need armor. Which many people consider counter intuitive.
Also, if a new hummer were to be released, it would have to have a stronger engine and all that.
Besides, those things were notoriously unsafe, they rolled easily and they had no heat without an expensive retrofit gasoline powered heater that was prone to leak gasoline. There was also little to no crew protection. I was in the Army when they got rid of the last of the jeeps, all units that had them had to cut them in half with a blowtorch and send the halves back on huge pallets to prevent them ever from being used again. A few might have escaped this fate, but not very many.The idea is they're going very fast, k? And so when they're driving by, by the time the moron terrorist ignites or activates his IED, the jeep will be sufficiently past.
Originally posted by: TehMac
I just found out, the Huey is going, and so is the CH-46. Both are being replaced by the MV-22 Osprey and the Seahawk will be the equivalent of the Blackhawk.
I'm sad to see the Huey go, it has a ton of potential; if they further developed it into a armor gunship/transport, and add faster engines, they'd be able to mount a gatling gun on the nose, two gatlings on the side, rocket launchers, and an m240 on the rear. It'd be the ultimate armored transport and support copter.
The MV-22 Osprey can't even have m240s on the side, due to the tilt rotors.![]()
Yeah, the hummers are definitely fast, thats why the Iraqis are having a field day with their IEDs. :roll:Originally posted by: jemcamI don't know where you get your information, but the Humvees are much much faster than the jeeps. I've logged many miles in both vehicles, give me a Humvee any day for speed.
Originally posted by: DLeRium
See, if we had Su-35s replacing our F-15s and then top that with our F-22s, our air force would be unstoppable.
The reason we kick@$$ right now is because no country in the world has the training that we give our pilots. So even if F-15s can get killed by British Typhoons, training is far more important.
Same thing if we used some Russian helos, we would kick even more @$$, but once again training makes our Apaches appear quite good =)
Originally posted by: eits
i anticipate MANY posts (and a possible boner) from 91ttz in this thread...
Originally posted by: Jadow
I wonder how much money they wasted on the Comache Helicopter. You'd figure after spending all that $, they would have actually decided to get some. Of course, the Apache is so bad ass, they probably didn't need the Comache.
Originally posted by: meltdown75
Last Wednesday I was eating my lunch parked next to one of the world's busiest nternational trading routes - Huron Church road in Windsor, Ontario.
A flatbed trailer carrying 2 large green shrink-wrapped vehicles was headed for the USA. Not sure what they were though, they looked like APCs? They didn't have wheels on them yet, maybe they were boats even. No clue. Maybe they are manufactured somewhere in Ontario for the US military?
If you're asking me, I'm considering going to Westpoint. Thing is, I have other dreams as well, and I don't think the military itself is for me. I'd love to join the marines (I live right next to MCAS Miarmar), and fly the Super Cobras, but I also have other things planned. I might become a military analyst, or I'd design weapons for the Pentagon.Originally posted by: illusion88
I am sure this has been asked (because I didn't read the thread).... but why don't you, you know... join the Military? You got flat feet or something?
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Crap, with George Bush serving as commander in chief, I wouldn't join the boy scouts. Probably get sent right into the meat grinder called Iraq.
Originally posted by: Jadow
I wonder how much money they wasted on the Comache Helicopter. You'd figure after spending all that $, they would have actually decided to get some. Of course, the Apache is so bad ass, they probably didn't need the Comache.
Originally posted by: SonnyDaze
Originally posted by: meltdown75
Last Wednesday I was eating my lunch parked next to one of the world's busiest nternational trading routes - Huron Church road in Windsor, Ontario.
A flatbed trailer carrying 2 large green shrink-wrapped vehicles was headed for the USA. Not sure what they were though, they looked like APCs? They didn't have wheels on them yet, maybe they were boats even. No clue. Maybe they are manufactured somewhere in Ontario for the US military?
Did they look like this? It might have been an Amphibious Assault vehicle (AAV). They don't have wheels, they have tracks, like a tank. They are used as a troop transport.
Originally posted by: IGBT
..anybody remember "Combat Arms" magazine??. I wish they'd come back.
