One thing the Soviets got right that all other countries that would build gunships would copy, a narrow fuselage. Actually it was lessons learned during the Vietnam War and the Soviets took notice.
Actually USSR wasn't that interesting in making narrow and relatively small helicopter, prefering bigger helicopters with more armor and some space for the troops instead. AH - 1 was that little thingey, which made narrow and harder to hit helicopters popular. Mi-28 can withstand up to 12,7 mm AP and 20 mm HE rounds, and has a space for four people inside, but is much wider. --------------------------- MiG-29SMT Tu-95 and IL-78 IS-3 T-18 ISU-152 BM-13
M-60 and T-62 Japanese on a purchased Tiger tank Avro Lancaster and Avro Vulcan Iraqi M1 HMS Dragon 21sm mortar, 1917 Railway torpedo!
Tu-160 Tu-22M3 E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Boeing EA-18G Growler J7W1 Shinden B-25 and B-17 Pz V Panter with it's turret penetrated by 152mm AP shell
A Soviet soldier...ready for the Germans That's a PPSh-41 he's holding..capable of firing 900 rounds per minute...they made millions of them. Throws out a room clearing blanket of lead for the urban warfare of the Battle of Stalingrad. To give an idea of what this weapon is capable of. [video=youtube;1VQpJj1TF7M][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VQpJj1TF7M[/video]
Well, so far the losses of 9 M1A1, 2 T-72M, 6 T-55 and 19 Type-59 were recorded. Not so many as could be imagined by the magnitude of Iraq territorial losses to ISIS. Prooflink On the other hand, they have lost 136 APCs/IFVs....and around 2300 Humvees. --------------------------------- B-24 «Liberator» on fire, «Little Warrior», 861-st squadron of 493-rd bomber group, 8-th Air Army, crashed 29th July,1944. Out of 10 crew members only one survived the landing and was later killed by the civilians on the ground. M4, the exact date and place are unknown German troops, Ardennes
It seems it is not so nice and clean for the Saudis in Yemen as they predicted Huthis destroying Saudi LAV-25 And some trophys 12,7 mm PGW LRT-3 5,56 mm Heckler&Koch G36
Msta-S T-72, captured by ISIS Sea Dart Fairey Barracuda Boing 747 and a Space Shuttle Leopard-2 Stipa Caproni
The Star Fighter was an absolute disaster. I remember constant reports of the German version being involved in crashes,.
But that is not a Strfighter. That is Convair F2Y Sea Dart, a skimming supersonic hydroplane, designed to escort a strategic bomber-hydroplane, called P6M SeaMaster
So do I. Nothing better than dead hippies. [video=youtube;W5BTbmiPfWE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5BTbmiPfWE[/video]
