Heat, smoke, and that loud “wop-wop” sound make helicopters easy targets on the battlefield. For these reasons, helicopters make the unlikeliest candidates for stealth technology. But during the 1990s and early 2000s, Boeing-Sikorsky challenged th…
The Boeing CH-47 is the heavy lifter of the U.S. Army. Outside of the United States, Britain’s Royal Air Force is the largest operator of the helicopter. Originally designated HC1…
Audiences must have marveled at what they were witnessing when the world’s earliest hovercraft sailed out throughout the blustery English Channel in 1959. Like a ship, a hovercraft glides on water…
It really wasn’t a good look for the United States to be pushing iconic UH-1 Huey helicopters off the side of aircraft carriers in April 1975. After some 20 years…
Aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky was designing bombers for the Russian Empire when World War I broke out. Nowadays, the company he founded in the United States makes the “choppers” that transport U.S. presidents. This is the story of how the “fathe…
Search-and-rescue choppers have become legendary. Remember the Jolly Green Giants and Pave Hawks? Well, it turns out that there was another helicopter …
If you believe it, do it — that’s seemingly the motto of Oklahoma Congressman, Mark Wayne Mullin, AKA Markwayne. He attempted — twice — to go into Afghanistan on a…
The Army’s helicopters have a number of names you recognize immediately: Apache, Black Hawk, Kiowa, Lakota, Comanche. They are also known as the names of Native American tribes. This is not a coincidence.
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The Vietnam War was long and arduous. It cost the United States a total of 58,220 troops, with 40,934 of them killed in action. The overall number of wounded sits at 304,000. These staggering numbers gave the military time to reflect on how effectiv… In the early 1980s, the Mil Mi-24 Hind and the Bell AH-1 Cobra were the major attack helicopters on either side of the Cold War. Had the Russians tried to storm the Fulda Gap, these two choppers would’ve butt heads — often — in betwe…How the Huey drastically increased chances of surviving the Vietnam War
This is what would happen if a Hind took on a Cobra