World's Deadliest Helicopters - War Documentaries

An attack helicopter is a armed helicopter with the primary duty of an attack aircraft, with the capacity of engaging targets on the ground, such as opponent infantry and armored cars. Because of their heavy armament they are often called helicopter gunships.
Defense made use of on attack helicopters could include autocannons, machine-guns, rockets, and directed rockets such as the Hellfire. Several assault helicopters are also qualified of lugging air-to-air missiles, though primarily for objectives of protection. Today's attack helicopter has 2 main functions: first, to supply direct and precise close air assistance for ground soldiers, and the 2nd, in the anti-tank role to destroy enemy shield concentrations. Attack helicopters are likewise made use of to supplement lighter helicopters in the armed scout role. In combat, an attack helicopter is predicted to destroy around 17 times its own production cost before it is destroyed.
Low-speed, fixed wing aircraft like the army version of the Piper J-3 Cub, the L-4 Grasshopper, had been made use of later in World War II following Operation Overlord by a few U.S. Army weapons watchman units over France, field-outfitted with either 2 or four bazooka rocket launchers connected to the wing shows off, against German armored fighting motor vehicles. During the summertime of 1944, U.S. Army Major Charles Carpenter took care of to efficiently handle an anti-armor duty with his rocket-armed Piper L-4. His L-4, called Rosie the Rocketeer, equipped with six bazookas, had a notable anti-armor success during an engagement during the Battle of Arracourt on September 20, 1944, knocking out a minimum of 4 German armored vehicles, as a pioneering instance of taking on heavy enemy armor from a slow-flying plane. This duty was something that was likewise most likely to be possible after World War II, from the enhancing varieties of post-war military helicopter designs. The only American helicopter being used during the war years, the Sikorsky R-4, was simply being used for rescue and were still quite experimental in nature.