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Eurocopter EC145 LUH
ARH is designed to focus on the urban fight and cover a gap where the
AH-64 has been shown to be weak. The NMS has a better advantage to looking down. I don't believe this should be limited as a solution to just the current "desert" theater or operations but viewed as a solution for future urban fights as well. With Bell as the contractor for the ARH, if the Army decides to later modify the ARH with a MMS, who better to do the modification than the contractor who worked the last version? (borrowed thought). Linc CTR wrote: Is it okay to replace the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior with an aircraft (the ARH-70A) that doesn't offer a mast-mounted sight? Meaning that the aircraft has to pop up into the open and expose itself in order to aim its weapons? The mast mounted site on the Kiowa was designed to allow the scout helicopter to peek over tree lines in Europe and light targets (like Soviet tanks) As the native male dogs are well aware of, trees are not plentiful in the desert. However attacks from ground fired RPGs and small arms fire is dense. Therefore the sensor package on the ARH-70 is mounted on the bottom of the nose to provide 360 deg coverage below. Have fun, CTR |
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