Vietnam Helicopters (VNH), formally the Vietnam Helicopter Corporation (VNH Corp or VHC; Vietnamese: Tổng công ty Trực thăng Việt Nam - Công ty TNHH, lit...
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helicopter losses. In total, the United States military lost in Vietnam almost 10,000 aircraft, helicopters and UAVs (3,744 planes, 5,607 helicopters...
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Vietnam Website March 24, 2017 Rising Storm 2: Vietnam goes to the most popular war June 16, 2015 Hands-on with Rising Storm 2: Vietnam's helicopters...
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Bell AH-1 Cobra (redirect from Cobra helicopter)
presence in Vietnam opened a new era of war from the air. The linchpin of US Army tactics was the helicopters, and the protection of those helicopters became...
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Lockheed YO-3 Quiet Star (section Vietnam War)
and sold by the General Services Administration at auction to the Vietnam Helicopters Museum. QT-1 Quiet Thruster Proposed single-seat powered glider based...
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Sikorsky H-34 (redirect from Choctaw helicopter)
to California Helicopter International in 1981. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, S-58T helicopters were operated by New York Helicopters in scheduled...
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States in the Vietnam War began in the 1950s and greatly escalated in 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The U.S. military presence in Vietnam peaked in April...
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Bell UH-1 Iroquois (redirect from Bell UH-1 Helicopter)
History of the Vietnam War, Volume 11: Helicopters. New York: Bantam Books. ISBN 0-553-34506-0. McGowen, Stanley S. (2005). Helicopters: An Illustrated...
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guns; 158 surface-to-air missile launchers; and 120 helicopters. In total, the Soviets sent North Vietnam annual arms shipments worth $450 million.: 364–371 ...
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Boeing CH-47 Chinook (redirect from Columbia Helicopters 234)
the helicopter was considerably faster than contemporary 1960s utility helicopters and attack helicopters, and is still one of the fastest helicopters in...
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Bell 505 Jet Ranger X (category 2010s Canadian helicopters)
a sign of imminent hardware failure. In early 2023, State-owned Vietnam Helicopters had a crash in the UNESCO World Heritage site Ha Long Bay, with five...
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counter-offensive to retake the city. The Vietnam War was the first conflict that saw wide-scale tactical deployment of helicopters. The Bell UH-1 Iroquois nicknamed...
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armored vehicles. Attack helicopters are also used as protective escort for transport helicopters, or to supplement lighter helicopters in the armed reconnaissance...
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Eurocopter EC155 (redirect from Airbus Helicopters EC155)
Eurocopter's corporate rebranding as Airbus Helicopters. It was succeeded in the product line by the Airbus Helicopters H160. Originally designated AS365 N4...
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conversion. The most common use of military helicopters is transport of troops, but transport helicopters can be modified or converted to perform other...
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Stealth helicopters are helicopters that incorporate stealth technology to decrease an enemy's detection ability. There are a diverse range of technologies...
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Gunship (redirect from Helicopter gunship)
world's most heavily armed helicopter at the time. Also, during the Vietnam War, the ubiquitous Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopters were modified into gunships...
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airlines in Vietnam, as approved by the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV). List of airlines List of defunct airlines of Vietnam List of airports...
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Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma (redirect from Airbus Helicopters EC225 Super Puma)
The Airbus Helicopters H225 (formerly Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma) is a long-range passenger transport helicopter developed by Eurocopter as the next generation...
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and coaxial-rotor, tiltrotor and compound helicopters are also all flying today. Four-rotor helicopters (quadcopters) were pioneered as early as 1907...
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cargo, or both, with fleets that comprise a significant proportion of helicopters. Some companies focus solely on winning ongoing contracts in a single...
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List of Mil Mi-8/17 operators (section Vietnam)
following nations currently operate (or formerly owned) Mi-8 and Mi-17 helicopters in civil or military roles: Afghan Air Force Algerian Air Force Angolan...
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followed by helicopters and later bombers, while naval forces included destroyers and transport vessels. With the size of Australian forces in Vietnam reaching...
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Fall of Saigon (redirect from 1975 Communist takeover of Vietnam)
capital of South Vietnam, by North Vietnam and North Vietnam-controlled Viet Cong on 30 April 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the collapse...
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in the I Corps area) or by dedicated Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) H-34 Kingbee helicopters of the 219th Squadron, which would remain affiliated...
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Times, March 21, 1944. Gross, Chuck (2006). Rattler One-Seven: A Vietnam Helicopter Pilot's War Story. University of North Texas Press. p. 173. ISBN 9781574412215...
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Hughes OH-6 Cayuse (redirect from McDonnell Douglas Helicopters Oh-6 CAYUSE)
Cayuse is a single-engine light helicopter designed and produced by the American aerospace company Hughes Helicopters. Its formal name is derived from...
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Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne (redirect from Cheyenne (helicopter))
armed helicopters. The recommendation of the Howze Board came at the same time the Army was preparing to deploy its first armed escort helicopters to Vietnam;...
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Vietnam is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. For much of its history, Vietnam was a predominantly agricultural civilization...
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of Vietnam (PAVN), officially the Vietnam People's Army (VPA; Vietnamese: Quân đội nhân dân Việt Nam, lit. 'Military of and for the people of Vietnam')...
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