Iran new Attack helicopter, page 1

Iran has run a new attack helicopter that would showed below. But as same as a lots of other aircraft built in Iran, few people knew something about it. please correct me if I was wrong, there are few Iranian here, maybe they would knew what about these.
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[edit on 31-12-2005 by emile]

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[edit on 31/12/2005 by Mirthful Me]

Originally posted by emile
really? If I give you picture that a little bit bigger than before one, what would you say?

The side view, behind the cockpit looks like a Jet Ranger, without the cargo/passenger area, but the angles, and chin turret look like a Cobra.

Jet Ranger


Cobra

Artist's impression of the helicopter:

Whilst the boom and rotor gear appears to be off the Jet Ranger (note that Iran is already producing a Jet Ranger clone), the fuselage is COMPLETELY redesigned. The engine(s) is lower and further aft. The cockpit and nose ARE NOT taken from the Cobra. Many of Iran's Cobras have the buble canopy -Iran experimented with refitting these with flat glass canopies to reduce glint, but this was unsuccessful.

This new design appears to be a scout helicopter. The gun under the nose, if that is what that dark line is, is too small to be anything more than a HMG -certainly not the Cobra's 20mm. The size and power of the jet ranger makes it an ideal base for a scout helicopter (Kiowa in US service for example) but it cannot carry much in the way of weapons. it certainly won't be in the Apache class.

There is no reason why this wouldn't be a reasonably good scout helicopter.

More interestingly, this could be a demonstrator leading up to a more capable attack helicopter design.

[edit on 1-1-2006 by planeman]

your right they use cover but look at this
www.army.mil...
you see the big ball on the top?
it can stay behind the tree to look so it would be invisable to almost evrything but wait i dont see any sensors on that choper i dont see anything that resembles a sensor package.

your correct that alot of radars designed to pick up planes ignore such things but the ones that look for o say a truck LOVE slow boxy structures. and its not like there are weapons that look for such targets o say AGM's or any other helos radar look exactly for that.

as for stealth look how thin the cobra is very small forward section. and notice the finish on the cobra its flat dont you sapose there might b some RAM in that b/c no airplane except for the 22 b-2 117 wow wierd ah. now look at your chopper looks like car paint. alright now look at the 64 no flat edges rigt wow go figure and that same finish ....making it harder to target maby minamising the cross section....humm i might b on to something

The biggest worry is IR and being visually sighted

alright then i do love that type of stripy white camo i bet that would realy blend in. lol

also for your refrence look at the abrams all angels same finish maby its resistant also YAY FOR ME lol

i stick with its a light atack craft....and a pathetic one at that

[edit on 1-1-2006 by engenerQ]

The first picture seems to be an early prototype/mock-up. This might be a better view of a later stage.

Edit: PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE MIGHT NOT BE OF THE SAME PROJECT

"More finished" version:

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[edit on 2/1/2006 by Lonestar24]

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