The AH-1Z Viper: US Marines Most Feared Helicopter Ever Built 

I agree.

Bell know how to design them some sexy helicopters. The Bel 222 instantly comes to mind!

Hell yeah ❤

But you lose in Vietnam.....

@@anonghost3554 Yes we did as far as I am concerned. But the main reason we did was because they were holding us back. The night of 1968 TET we were ordered to call in before we fired our weapons during the attack at Long Bien when I was on guard duty. And I said F&^K you because by the time a got the command officer we would have been dead. Trust me the damn Politicians and Officers knew what was going on but failed to tells us. They should have let us do our thing there and it would have been a different outcome.

RESPECT

@@anonghost3554 When their hands were tied by politicians who wouldn't let them fight back the way they wanted to, when they wanted to, it's not the American fighting men who lost, but the sorry-ass American government.

Más temido tu or.t.o

Information straight from Wikipedia 😂

ITS THE REAL LIFE TIGER HELI.

People have no idea the herculean efforts our maintenance folks in the military put in to keep equipment operational.

That’s why it cost so much for American labor .. built in America is the best in the world

Go America!

Mi-28 would make it a sieve !

​ I'm pretty sure it wouldn't

@Giuseppe Battagliese lmfao you think a sniper can shoot down a helicopter? This isn't GTA

수리온과 붙으면 바이퍼 맥도 못춘다

Do you know the difference between a cobra and a Hoover upright vacuum cleaner? Answer, the vacuum cleaner only has one dirt bag. Pilot joke.

Okay bhai 👍 .I am from Pakistan

All Marine cobras had 2 engines---was a requirement for at sea ops. By far the biggest mechanical upgrade was the fully articulated rotor head which allowed for better maneuvering and added payload.

The evolution of this machine has added and outstanding array of changes so that it's practically a completely different helicopter then the J model Cobra used in vietnam.

Aright

Hey, that's not true. Any helicopter can do a loop..., "once".

@@mrgrinch837 Not really. When attempting to loop in most helicopters, the rotary wing craft will get almost upside down but then it rolls to one side then it's right side up again. It doesn't matter how high above the ground or how fast the helicopter is going or what commands the pilot forces on the controls either. Most helicopters just won't loop.

Well, number one I was kidding. Number two if you look at my photograph that's me flying a UH-1H huey in flight school over Alabama near a horrific place called Fort Rucker. I got 185 hours in the Huey and almost 870 hours in cobras. Your theory is novel except physics doesn't bear out when you're talking a semi-rigid rotor system which is what the hueys and cobras have. We have limitations on our maneuvering. If you try to do that in a semi rigid aircraft the rotor blade will likely cut off the tailbone and most likely go right through the gunner's head. We and any other helicopter with a semi rigid rotor system can't do that maneuver, ergo, the joke you can do a loop..., once. Then at that point you're dead. That was the joke. Sorry, Army pilot humor. Now when you're talking about a fully articulated rotor system such as the CH-53 and even the Apache and the British lynx, then you may be able to do maneuvers such as that, but not all helicopters have an articulated rotor head. It's extremely risky and the pilot really needs to know what he's doing.

Should be the Airspeed sensor, i guess...

The HADS (Helicopter Air Data System) uses AADS (Airspeed and Direction Sensor) probes

The aads boom gets air pressure, temperature, Windrift and feeds That Into the Fire Control computer to allow for much more accurate rocket targeting when combined with the Laser Rangefinder in edition to the rocket management system which accounts for the weight of each type of warhead selected for ballisticfiringsolutions. In other words it gives you a scientific wild ass guess when shooting the unguided rockets.

All these good. Like the nithbg toping sir wolf.

N-0

The apache is always better

Xd

Maintenance hog as I’ve heard

Actually they use the gazelle helicopter from Aerospatiale

이거 라인 닫는다는데 뭔 개소리여..

I flew them from 87 to 97. If you are one of my crew chiefs thank you!

Apache dont need that, Vipers crossing the sea might encounter some enemy planes

Israeli Apaches have it. So they can do it if the army wants.

I flew F model cobras for 9 years. Keep hearing references to sidewinder missiles. They designed them so they could say they can be fired. But in reality there's absolutely ZERO chance of an enemy aircraft getting past AWAC's and the fighter cover. You'll never--ever see an enemy airplane in the vicinity of our ground troops. The thought is ludicrous. Didn't happen in any wars thus far. As far as which is better, the apache is designed to take hits and keep flying. It's got great crash survivability. It's the only advantage over the Viper. Other than that they both have very comparable attributes. They do the same mission, extreme close air support for ground troops, but other than the survivability aspect, they're pretty much even. I tend to lean towards the cobras as they're easier to maintain via the computers than the apache. Most of the bugs have been worked out by the time the got the longbow and now the E model, so they're more reliable than in the past.

@@DOI_ARTS I'm guessing the guys who fly the hornets are taking the day off then.

Hellfire missiles dont fear manpads either

Little fact, man pads were not actually meant to take out a helicopter flying right off the treetops. Even if they could we have these things called flares and shaft dispensers. The Russians have a tendency to fly in the nosebleed zones, we in the Army we hug the Earth. We fly so low we get speeding tickets.

You’re absolutely wrong! Us Fighter Jocks and the Bomber Jocks constantly put our asses on the line (and we’re happy to do it) by providing CAS & BAI for our Brothers on the ground. We flew more ground support than we did air to air (duh!) and the Airforce wanted to retire the A-10 so they could buy newer stuff…. Quit making shit up

Yeah!!!

@@apegues If thhe USAF wanted to keep the A-10, it would have been made into a 2-seater by now to take the high work load off of the pilots.

@@Chuck59ish that would require a total redesign of the A10 and would be too expensive. It is better to up grade the A10 with more automated weapon management capability.

@@Thomasnmi The Americans are already famous world-wide for their friendly fire incidents, making the A-10 more autimatic would just increase the chances of that happening more often.

I've fired TOW's from 77 to 97. The hellfire goes about twice the range and it weighs in at 110lbs as opposed to the 55lbs for a TOW. So if the explosive fails that's still a 110lb missile slamming into you at .6 times the speed of sound. In other words, it'll hurt. A lot.

$$$. Plus the Apache is designed specifically to destroy mass armor formations. Something the Marines aren't designed or equipped to do

The zulu does the same job as the apache, and although the apache is designed to take battle damage and still make it home, the cobras are smaller and you can fit more of them below the decks than the apache, so as a ball park, they may be able to carry 10 apaches or 18 cobras. Go with the larger numbers. Plus they've got a lot of the same parts as the huey. Same parts allows you to save more storage space.

Greatest nation? With no healthcare and at least one mass shooting everyday?

Despite bidens several attempts to destroy or sell this nation to the ccp, it is still the greatest.

@@cliffcampbell8827 biden does this that..trump does this that..people have problem with every politician🤦‍♂️😂...but the nation remains great!!!😎🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

The US isn't the greatest country on the planet. If it where this country would have no poverty no crime. It's leaders wouldn't be corrupted ect

@@LunarLizard it's ability to handle any crisis,to invade any country,to punish anybody,to save every body,to entertain everybody,to influence everybody defines its power,its greatness!!!.....poverty,corruption is found everywhere but very less in US..u can feel jealous though😂😏

The warthog is an A-10. You may be confusing it with the AC 130

@@craig4867 you're literacy?

I bet you're that guy that tells people "I almost joined the military". 😆

Pretty well

Fuck around and find out

Says the arm chair general

Marines have ran the Cobra family since the 60's the Viper is the latest Cobra, they also call the Viper the Zulu Cobra. Viper is better from Ship to Shore Missions, they don't have to train pilots to fly a completely different helicopter. The Viper is better than the Apache for the Marines needs. Marines usually fly in tandem with the Venom (modern Huey), the Viper has better range, higher top speed, has a higher rate of climb. They're fairly similar in alot of ways and it's splitting hairs to say which is better. Because they both have strengths over the other so it comes down to needs, familiarity, and preference. The Viper program came active over the last 20 years, the Apache was 70's/80's. The Viper is the most modern AH being in its 3rd major iteration, Cobra/Super Cobra/Viper(Zulu Cobra). There's been talks of the next AH replacing Both Vipers and Apaches to slim down costs of running multiple helicopters for similar mission sets. I have a feeling that will be a shit show just like the F35 program

​@@YOSHI450Ralthough you do raise a few fine points, I hate to burst your bubble but the weapon systems between the Viper and Apache are almost identical with the Hellfire and the rockets. The only difference is the gun. Other than that the advantage of the Apache over the Viper is the Apache is designed to take hits and still keep flying, the Viper is not. Don't get me wrong I love the viper, I flew the Army for a little over 9 years so I'm a little leaning towards it but the bottom line is it can't take a hit.