#attack helicopter

[nocternalrandomness]

USMC AH-1W near Atlantic Field North Carolina

#USMC #Marine Corps #Bell #AH-1W #Whisky #attack helicopter #gunship #military #helicopter #Super Cobra #Snake #Helo #aircraft

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Images from the ground of the Russian helicopter that was destroyed by Ukrainian artillery of the 14th Brigade near Tokarivka, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, 2023. Source:  Ukraine Weapons Tracker

#Ukraine #russian invasion #Mi-35 #attack helicopter #russian defeat #russian imperialism #russian losses #helicopter #aviation history #ukrainian independence war #war #military history #russian attack on europe

[tar-dar]

and of course we can't forget "Major Obvious Flight Crash Helicopter Inspector" Degtyarev

#helicopter #attack helicopter #stingray #cop #call of pripyat #stalker call of pripyat #stalker meme #stalker #s.t.a.l.k.e.r. meme #s.t.a.l.k.e.r. #major helicopter #major degtyarev #alexander degtyarev #steal his look #this is so low effort im sorry #shitposts #meme

[thingstrumperssay]

It’s been like, what, eight years and transphobes still can’t come up with a new joke?

#transphobia #attack helicopter #transphobe #transphobes #terf #radfem #radical feminism #radical feminist #gender critical #tw: transphobia #queue #terfs

[blueiskewl]

Shoot to Thrill

A Ukrainian Mi-24 hits the Russian lines.

#ukraine #russia #russian war on ukraine #the front line #helicopter #attack helicopter #mi 24 #war #world at war #weapons #battle #fighting #combat #shoot to thrill

[the-nomadicone]

AH-1Z Viper // United States Marine Corps

#United States Marine Corps #U.S. Marine Corps #USMC #RIMPAC #RIMPAC 2022 #Rim of the Pacific 2022 #HMAS Canberra #AH-1Z Viper #AH-1Z #Viper #Attack Helicopter #UH-1Y #UH-1Y Venom #Venom #armed forces #military #milblr #Royal Australian Navy #L02

[max-e-doodle]

Apache.

#apache #us armed forces #attack helicopter

[cathartes-aura-shitposting]

weird plane time!!

since i have a random unusual aircraft generator and see a severe lack of any fun airplane facts (especially on the obscure/strange ones), i decided "fuck it" and step up to give tumblr some fun little airplanes.

and for the first post....it's a helicopter.

the Bell YAH-63 (aka Bell model 409).

(link to wiki page)

this fine fella was an experimental attack helicopter created by Bell Helicopters, and it was to compete for the Advanced Attack Helicopter (AAH) competition.

bassically, the AAH competition was exactly what it sounded like; a competition between aircraft manufactures to see who could create the best next attack helicopter for the US Army. more specifically, as wikipedia states: "the Army's broader concern was the task of protecting Western Europe from the numerous Warsaw Pact tanks to the east"

what the army wanted was an attack helicopter that was better than the AH-1 Cobra in both range, firepower and performance. the YAH-63, alongside the YAH-64 (which would later become the well-known AH-64 apache), competed for that title.

unfortunately, the YAH-63 lost. why? well, the Army said that the two-bladed rotors made it "more vulnerable", and believed that the tricycle landing gear was less stable than the taildragger landing gear that the Apache had.

three helicopters total were made. the first one crashed a few months after it's initial flight. the other two were the ones that actually competed.

wikipedia doesnt state were the other two prototypes went. however, searching through google, i found that both examples of them ended up as the United States Army Aviation Museum near Daleville, Alabama:

and as an avigeek who advocates for the preservation of historical aircraft (and especially the rare and weird ones), i always love it when prototypes like these are spared from being scraped/destroyed. they really are a one-of-a-kind.

#aircraft #weird aircraft #aerospace #air force #airplane #avgeek #aviation #avigeek #attack helicopter #experimental aircraft #experimental helicopter

[bigmeatpete69420]

Attack helicopter

#bigmeatpetebirds #attack helicopter #hummingbird

[thepariahcontinuum]

Can we take a moment to appreciate that Transformers has multiple canonically Trans Characters and (To the best of my knowledge) none of them Transform into an Attack Helicopter.

#Transformers #canon trans character #Trans #attack helicopter

[phasroy]

#republican #conservative #conservative memes #dank republican memes #attack helicopter

[nocternalrandomness]

A USMC Whisky over the Algodones Dunes, Ca

#USMC #Bell #AH-1 #AH-1W #Super Cobra #attack helicopter #gunship #military #Marine #Whisky #aircraft #Marine Aviation #Helicopter

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Destroyed Russian Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopter, Novoprokopivka, Ukraine, August 17, 2023. Source: ukr.warspotting.net

#Ukraine #russian invasion #ka 52 alligator #attack helicopter #rural landscape #ukrainian independence war #russian losses #russian defeat #military history #aviation history

[gshock930]

#ah 64 apache #boeing #mcdonnell douglas #hughes aircrafts #attack helicopter #helicopters #us army #military aviation #aviation #us armed forces #military aircraft

[ghostwarriorrrr]

AH-1Z VİPER

#military #aircraft #us navy #aircraft carrier #attack helicopter #united states navy #navy #ah 1z viper #🇺🇲

[dronescapesvideos]

UH-60 Black Hawk and AH-1S Cobra helicopters in front of the pyramids. Bright Star exercise, 1982

➤➤ Black Hawk In Somalia Interview: https://youtu.be/69A4xFN_0bw

➤➤ HD Image: https://tinyurl.com/3kw2w2cy

#youtube #aircraft #aviation #dronescapes #military #documentary #aviation history #UH-60 #black hawk down #ah 1 cobra #attack helicopter #military helicopter #egypt #pyramids #us military #UH 60 Black Hawk #aviation photography #aviation industry #cobra helicopter