Monday, 9 March 2015

World's Most Advance Attack Helicopter - OPERATION DESERT STORM - Documentary Films Channel








An assault helicopter is a armed helicopter with the primary duty of an attack airplane, with the ability of engaging targets on the ground, such as enemy infantry and armored vehicles. Because of their heavy weaponry they are occasionally called helicopter gunships.

Today's strike helicopter has two primary functions: initially, to offer precise and direct close air assistance for ground troops, and the second, in the anti-tank duty to destroy enemy armor concentrations. Attack helicopters are also utilized to supplement lighter helicopters in the armed precursor duty.

Low-speed, fixed wing airplane like the military version of the Piper J-3 Cub, the L-4 Grasshopper, had been utilized later in World War II following Operation Overlord by a couple of U.S. Army weapons spotter devices over France, field-outfitted with either 2 or 4 bazooka rocket launchers connected to the wing shows off, versus German armored fighting motor vehicles. During the summer of 1944, U.S. Army Major Charles Carpenter handled to effectively handle an anti-armor part with his rocket-armed Piper L-4. His L-4, named Rosie the Rocketeer, equipped with 6 bazookas, had a notable anti-armor success during an involvement during the Battle of Arracourt on September 20, 1944, knocking out a minimum of four German armored motor vehicles, as a pioneering instance of handling heavy enemy armor from a slow-flying aircraft.

This role was something that was additionally most likely to be possible after World War II, from the boosting numbers of post-war armed forces helicopter designs. The only American helicopter in usage during the war years, the Sikorsky R-4, was simply being used for rescue and were still really much experimental in nature.

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