Camp Holloway Discussion Forum Archive 04 - 01/01/04 to 02/10/06

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The twin cobra is a Marine corps Helicopter. It has a 20 mm cannon in the turret and wing armamment includes Sidewinder air to air missiles.
Back in the early days the missiles of the fighter did not work well against a terrain back ground while the chopper had the fixed wing skylined most of the time. He had to get within 3 thousand or so feet of you for his Gun to be effective. And if you closed toward the attacking fixed wing at max speed and low altitude and varried heading every 3 seconds or so, he got steeper and steeper trying to get a gun soultion on your butt. After 6 or 7 seconds the best of them pulls up to avoid impact, and a hard turn and bingo you're on his butt with a missile. If he slows downto maneuver with you, your gunner can cover 90 degrees of sky in a second and the fixed wing has to maneuver his entire airplane against a highly mobile anti- aircraft platform.
A formal test some years later was more than 18 to 1 in favor of the attack helicopter before they got look down shoot down capability.
Now I am sure a chopper would be dogmeat to a modern fighter, but hell if you're gonna die anyway attack his ass.
BT

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