AH1 Cobra Helicopter- Tour and Aerial Demonstration

[@wallacejeffery5786]

It started out with a 7.62 minimum and or grenade launchers. The AH-1j got the first 20mm. It was wing mounted and almost wrecked the aircraft on first test fire. Down rated to three barrels and 750 vs 1500. Initially had same engine as the Huey. T53-L13 Pratt and Whitney. The AH-1j had a lycoming T400-CP400 as twin engines for the Marines. The guns were electrically fired and due probably to emi emissions, there was a 20 mm and a mini gun accident at Bells factory in Hurst, Tx. Not much in Texas to stop a 20mm.

[@markgadbois8357]

Frank and Shamus! Miss both you boys - thanks for sharing this awesome video!

[@EfponlineNetwork]

Our pleasure!

[@AbnEngrDan]

Had the pleasure of flying the F model a couple of years ago in California. It handled quite well as we put it through the paces. A lot of fun.

[@masatohiroki]

Damn thanks man this made my day watching a demonstration of my favorite helicopter, AH-1Z might be the most best modernized model of the Cobra right now but that doesn't mean Old Models have retired from service

[@MellowYellow.]

This is one of my favorite helicopters

[@MT-uu7ol]

Very cool CAV hats!

[@santiagocantuborjas9060]

I was a 68J10 weapons crew member maintenance and repair.

[@madirishman69]

Air Cav....out front. love the cobra>!

[@hueydoc]

Still have my saber but sold my Cav Hat when I left the 1st Car 227th Aviation battalion back in the 70's. Just got the S model and flew it for awhile

[@EfponlineNetwork]

Do you have the spurs? :)

[@hueydoc]

@@EfponlineNetwork never got them

[@dognatious6153]

So much better than the other ah videos. Nice!

[@brooklynrobotworks9866]

Memories, memories...

[@MyFavoriteDisease]

I din't even know this configuration existed. The old single-engine airframe, but with the larger gun and even the modern airflow sensors.

[@scottw6395]

D-Frame That is the F model - flat plat canopy, 20 mm, air data sensor, the Army used 5 models (G, mod, prod, ECAS and F or fully modernized). I was an IP in all but the G model, you may here about the S but later the S was redesignated modified (mod) and production (P or prod).

[@sprungmonkey6inches]

"Hey Chief Pullio, Stand up!"

[@GJaaGular]

i'll stick with this ole friend jeffg

[@GJaaGular]

or an a10 .. or me on the ground with a red eye

[@oneshot2028]

This is not the twin-engine Super Cobra I assume?? I think this is the single-engine Cobra.

[@christiancruz4533]

Nice

[@seoulkidd1]

Still looks bad ass

[@jalenjohnson6187]

Fort Bragg

[@grifce]

Hey I'm a 67y I was made in Fort Eustis Virginia 1980

[@rogfromthegarage3143]

We may have been there at the same time. I finished boot camp in December of 1980 and went to "Fort Useless" in January of 81. Used to say Eustis stands for "even Uncle Sam thinks it sucks".

[@grifce]

@@rogfromthegarage3143 never thought that.

[@rogfromthegarage3143]

@@grifce It was just Army humor

[@grifce]

@@rogfromthegarage3143 10-4 I was there My deploma reads Attack Helicopter Repair Course (MOSC 67y10) 23rd day of March 1981

[@rogfromthegarage3143]

@@grifce we were there at the same time then. I remember one day we transported a cobra to a hanger maybe a quarter mile away. There were a bunch of people pushing it by hand. I was lucky that I got to sit in the cockpit while everyone else pushed. You don't happen to remember that do you? Where did you get stationed after AIT?

[@icemilo6589]

Tomahawk 8

[@sfsbeast6319]

That actually looks kinda close to the Apache helicopter

[@francisconti9085]

It's what began the Apache..AH-64, which was built around the Helfire missile system, upgraded and up-armored .. designed specifically as a tank killer. The AH-1 and UH-1 had great parts commonality and system familiarity in different applications. Cobra could lay down fire as a smaller target and outmaneuver Huey troop carriers being faster , capable of more severe manuvers. The Apache is much more powerful maneuverable and @ 10 tons, a more sophisticated helicopter asset. The fully articulated rotor allows more violent pitching and rolling manuvers than the 2 bladed underslung "teetering" rotor.

[@mrmakhzani1701]

Deal

[@veterannavy304]

Scarface brought me here.

[@scottmonroe6522]

I flew these in Germany 1989-1991 and found them to be heavy and very underpowered. Not a maneuverable helicopter despite what the IP says. By the way, I was a Cav unit and only a lifer douche would wear those stupid hats.

[@EfponlineNetwork]

One time I had to ask, "I get the hat, but what's up with the spurs?"

[@rogfromthegarage3143]

I was a mechanic in 2/9 Cav unit at Hunter Army Airfield. The only person in the outfit who wore a Stetson was Captain Dick Cody, "West Point 76" as he would always say. If you search for him you'll find he was indeed a lifer and attained the rank of Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, which is the second highest person in the Army. I thought he was a dick but he obviously knew what he was doing. We got the first OH-6s from Fort Campbell that were taken out of "mothballs" to be used for special ops and I worked on the first one. Went on a check ride with Capt. Cody and almost did rollovers in it.

[@Sneakyboson]

The hats are dope.

[@michaelsabella5924]

Why all this deadly technology when the last time I checked the U.S hasn't had to defend its borders probably for a few hundred years now. Well this is all needed to continue to become an Empire I suppose.

[@dimitristripakis7364]

Of course the US doesn't hav eto defend its borders. But it has to invade other people's borders. When US official say "defense" they mean "we go bomb other countries".

[@diggermolly5927]

@@dimitristripakis7364 Both you and Michael, or should I say Michelle, are the problem, move to another country and feel what freedom is like there. I can bet you, due to the sacrifice of the heroes that flew these aircraft, it won't feel the same. Get out of your profs office and join the real world, patriotism is not all that bad, until you don't live in a country that doesn't have it, you morons.

[@dimitristripakis7364]

@@diggermolly5927 You should read a little about the cold war and who the aggressor was there and still is , Soviets buding SAM missiles or US building stealth aircraft. They have actually convinced American people that they use stealth technology to DEFEND from SAM missiles. Who is the moron?

[@Stacie45]

Who said anything about an empire? Our politicians just like to screw with the local people for a while and test out our latest war toys. Then we usually bug out.

[@UnderSprayedWhiteSkies]

It's all part of NWO (or as the ruling clan refers to it, "Tikkun Olam"). They've served up every boogie man we, our parents, grandparents/great grandparents have ever known. "If my sons did not want war, there would be none." - Gutle Schnapper Rothschild. "The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Mandell House. "World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues, or commerce; and those who hold the purse strings stage and manage most of them." - Denis Healey, former U.K. Secretary of State for Defense.