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Uploaded by on Feb 17, 2007

National Geographic does another bang up job on military history

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  • You sure love Hueys. Why can't we win in raq w/ all thse great chppers?

  • Yeah "alexvariocam" that's why so many were shot down and we lost the war. Then we had to develope the Blackhawk to take care of the Huey's deficiences.

    Oh and by the way, They are an inherently inneficient weapon. They suck fuel, and they are relatively easy to shoot down. Go check your history of Somalia for a reference to "Blackhawk Down." Ya dumb ass.

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  • Hueys was 1 of the best helicopters in the human history... bloody hell

  • huey was one of the best helicopters ever!

  • Anything that flies can be shot down. Ask Francis Gary Powers. Whoops, he's dead. Never mind.

  • My bad, Super Cobra.

  • ytblows, the opening statement "designed to be a troop transport, not a gunship" says it all. Hueys performed the jobs they were designed for very well, but made mediocre gunships, as the Blackhawks do now. Cobras, derived from them, were, and are(as the King Cobra), excellent attack helos, only recently surpassed in capability by the latest generation of mission-specific combat choppers. And what was wrong with investors making money off an aircraft that fulfilled its' design requirements?

  • i am sorry as well as other forces, such as the aussies for example.

  • hundreds of pilots, historians, military commanders and engineers would disagree with your overall perception of the UH-1.

  • Wow, military historians are gonna love that, a whole war lost because of helicopter losses, really? The Huey assured evacuation for many wounded and helped in the many combat victories of american forces.

  • The second helo I ever flew was a HUEY and to "blame" the loss on it is ignorant; as in not having any idea about the subject. 40 Countries fly the HUEY. They made about 10,000 which for an aircraft is an amazingly high number. It was deficient leadership that lost that war. Regardless of your politics you have to agree it still is a great aircraft; used ones go for over $4 million today. The market says its a great helicopter and so do I.

  • Oh, I got more to say. Besides, if it's so flawed why do lots of people use them all over the world to this day? Oh and the Vietnam war being "lost" can't be blamed on the huey, if you're gonna think like that why not also blame it on the B-66 destroyers? If you want to bash crappy helicopters bash something like the aerospatalie gazelle.

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