Wishing for a Longbow

[Kev2go]

I really hope this becomes a module someday, even if it's just the A model.

 

Seeing the early development pictures from when it was a planned module always makes me wonder why ED didn't finish it.

 

 

I know they had their reasons, but as one of the most iconic if not premier western attack helicopters, it would have sold well.

 

for me its AH64D or bust.

 

 

otherwise I think AH1W would already be more sophisticated ( if its late 90s- early 2000s model) than the AH64A in some ways, and is more versatile with muntions type.

 

 

AH1W has EGI ( with exact CDU panel used in A10C) in both Pilots and gunners seat, and Gunner has a Multifunction display.

 

AH1W can use both TOW and hellfire missiles, and AH64A can only use Hellfires.

 

There are advantages and disadvantages to both, so having option for 2 types is nice in the Super Cobra. As yet another nice to have featured the Cobras can carry a pair AIm9L or M sidewinders, which means it has some means to self protect against aicraft in a contested enviornment. In lieu of Sidewinders AGM122 SIdearm can be equipped allowing limited SEAD

to self protect against low level SAM threats.

 

 

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a491658.pdf

Edited March 1, 2019 by Kev2go

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