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It's an area weapon not a point weapon. Great when you can bullseye the 5meter (16 ft ) kill zone but the real power with a grenade launcher is areas of carnage in one go, 130m (427 ft) casualty radius. If grenade launchers mounted on helos didn't work they would never have mounted the M-5 grenade launcher on the nose of a Huey Gunship or put one in the turret on the AH-1G next to the M134 mini-gun and the snake was balls to wall for it's time. In field modded cases above I think it came down to being able to suppress and cover with a 60 better especially on the break from the gu

Apparently I've been down this trail before in my notes I took but I cant remember the details. Sorry about that. It was during my research on Nighthawks I was likely asking about involvement with or by ACTIV - Army Concept Team in Vietnam who fielded a lot of things we fly in modern cockpits to this day as well as armament we use. The Gunslingers of the 128th Assault Helicopter Company did a one up over the MK 19 Mod 0. This is what I took down: "In over 15 years I've been researching Vietnam era helicopters, I've come to a conclusion that door mounted automatic high v

A good gunner can walk any round/s on target. 191st Assault Helicopter Company Can Tho, Republic of Vietnam. Their Nighthawk was known as Night Breed.

If you think it's confusing to you try talking to some Vietnam army aircrews and pilots who flew guns. Sometimes they don't even refer to it by what others in a different unit do and that chart shows why; 4 variations of Hog, 2 of heavy Hog, never heard Thumper used as anything other than referring to the M-5 and almost universally Frog was in their own word's if it had an M-5 thumper on the nose. Also outside of hating to load it they've all agreed it was a great area weapon. I recognize that chart (Figure 47, page 23) and it's from the late Pete Harlem's 'Crew Chief 1 The UH-1C

There's love for it just no one wants to produce anything that far back. I agree backdating the Academy 58D is your best bet. Here are a few slides to share out of my collection of early Army 58As. OH-58 70-15098 at Lakehurst Municipal, NJ September 1973 in MERDC. Photo by Bruce R. Trombecky of Willingboro, NJ. OH-58A 71-20345 June 1974 in MERDC camouflage paint scheme. Photo by Jeuny Liang. Camp Atterbury Indiana April 1974

My apologies to agelos2005 because I was way out of line. Cone of shame is mine and it's not the first time for me. Great build and yes after my old age thumping my cane episode I checked the video. Well done and great work. Thanks for posting the photos of the build as well. Nice detailing. Again, my apologies.

Same here. Incredibly well built and incredible turn around times. I wish I had his speed to complete.

Absolutely. To each his own.

Lol. No you are here to drive revenue and hits on your video on youtube. You might have the best scratch skills in the world and I'll still pass on your 'business model'. That's like these aftermarket dealers who only sell on Facebook which means you have to join that lame circus. I'll pass on them too. I'll do what I want and NOT click on your video for a 'like' and 'subscribe' uptick.

Why are you even on here if you're using Arc to link to YouTube Subscriptions and likes? Because its too much work for you to link an image which leaves an archive here on Arc for others to maybe follow? Give me a break and like others I'll just pass on that. You either support this forum or don't and in your case it's apparently too way too much effort to ask to post images but hey making a youtube video, uploading and adding to your channel isnt. No thanks.

That moment when you realize you've just responded to an archaic thread. 🙄 Sorry folks.

As my dear departed Onkel Willi replied to me upon returning home from hospital after my proclaiming how I proudly cleaning all the spiderwebs from his home, "Now whose going to to eat all the flies?" As for the cane snatcher, cover her apartment door in this

Very nicely done Michael, nice Zim and painting technique. I think you captured the reference image very well. Unique display from all the other Panthers you see at shows. Just a small correction, this is not the Falaise Gap The Panther you depicted belonged to 1.Kompanie/SS-Panzer-Regiment 12 of the 12th SS-Panzer Division Hitlerjugend, a unit I've spent far too much of my life researching. Contrary to incorrect captions the Panther was knocked out by an anti-tank gun located in the Almir Garden near the Church on the South side of Bretteville-l'Orgueilleuse on 8 June 1944. This w

Anti-Strella mods were standard on the NUH-1B TOW B models. Common for VNAF as well as Joint Commision Hueys with the various colored stripes. H Troop 17th CAV in 1972, image Bob Hesselbein, Undertaker 27 D Troop 17th CAV, 1972 all Images Rich Neely and show D Troops Nighthawk F Troop 4th CAV Centaurs, All images Brian Harrison F Troop, 4th CAV image Wayne Moose 1972

Outstanding build, scratch work, paint, and superb weathering! Looks mission ready. Also, plus 1 for the whiskey!

"Loss of confidence" in her ability to lead the team and 'mistakes she made' which is just Air Force speak for we know but wont lift the covers so you can view the corpse and identify the body. It could be anything and anything is speculative from an alcohol incident to extramarital affair or she just pissed in the wrong person's cornflakes like maybe the Wing Commander who relieved her. Or maybe, just maybe, she hit the Peter Principle and rose above her level of competence because I saw plenty of that myself in service. Since she deleted her social media and is in a 'black out' s

Here's a 1:18 Apache that just sold for $118.50 plus $40 shipping. Boxed you'll pay over $200 unless you get 'a deal deal'. 1:24 is about as big as you get with scale helicopter model kits and it's limited to a few. Anyway good hunting.

They are the ones made formerly by 21st Century Toys - Ultimate Soldier line, bought out by BBI and Merit. They made the Huey, Kiowa, Blackhawk, Apache, AH-1W Super Cobra, and OH-6/MH-6. I have the Huey and was working on correcting the inaccuracies but never finished. I was given a 1:18 Kiowa when I left the program after 6 years. They are not kits outside of 'some assembly required. They are also pricey now but are a good base. Some folks have converted them to RC. Just Ebay search on 1:18 helicopters.

John, not H-6s but I cant imagine their FLIR wasn't COTS or dissimilar to that seen in these MD500 series Law Enforcement assets from the early 80s up. All images were taken by Rainer G. Hanxleden and were scanned from his 5x7 photos. Click for larger 300 dpi I believe this monitor may actually be LLTV type.

Bravo! Well done and looking forward to your updates. Its always great to see scatchwork and the skill involved.

Or since I've been wanting to build a small vacuform table ever since watching Punished Props do it maybe I'll take Tank's suggestion to heart and get it done. Less expensive in the long run. Resin and the supplies for it get's pricey quickly.

Synchronicity as I just picked up the Seminar kit yesterday. Now the wait for it to arrive from beautiful France. The blade chord needs to also be corrected besides using the right material to cast them in. The UH-1B had a 44 ft main rotor blade with a 21 inch chord (thanks again Ray. The only UH-1B in my AO is on a water survival training tower that is off limits). My understanding is the backdate set scaled to 25 inch chord since Chris based his off the Seminar kit. Once it's in I'll check the OOB scale of the main rotors. To solve the resin issues I'll b

Damn those disposable cameras of that time that had zero focus adjustment. If they were being flown by the squirrel nut zippers I'm disappointment they didn't go with the 4 blade quiet tail rotor. COTS since before 1987 thanks to the 'Quiet One'.

LD, I believe these are same same 81-23631 From Graham back in the day 23631 CFD International and likely as you stated a dedicated 160th test ship. It was at one time MH-6J 81-23631 ACC: 06/81 A CO. 160 SOA GP

11Bee, I did some digging. I was certain they utilized some type of NVG capability on the Son Tay Raid. Negative. It wasn't until Dec 1972!! that they utilized something called LNRS - Limited Night Rescue System and that just consisted of Doppler radar and TF/TA Terrain Following Terrain Avoidance Radar. TACAN was added as well for navigation. Meanwhile the US Army had already been successfully fielding Starlight scopes, IR Illuminators(searchlights with both Infra-red and white light capabilities), Direct View devices, FLIR, Low Light Television (LLTV) and monitors which were earl