Thank you for this footage. My father was a Cobra pilot with B Troop, 2/17 Air Cav, 101st Airborne Air Assault, in Vietnam '71-'72. He didn't talk much about what it was like. These videos give me a good idea of what it must have looked like for him. He died of cancer at age 48 from Agent Orange.
My class was the last class to go thru Ah-1G mech. School at ft eustis va. Never worked on a G model in the real world mostly s models but that was awhile ago!
Having been an AH-1G pilot in Vietnam, I appreciate this video. One minor criticism is the added sound effects of the minigun firing. In the video, it sounds more like a traditional machine gun, where you hear each round being rapidly fired. But the Cobra miniguns just made a solid roar, much like in this video: ruclips.net/video/vfRpiem7yps/видео.htmlsi=a906Y-KElvLJixyE
In 1968 I was in school at Ft Eustice VA to become Huey Crewchief/door gunner. I had the chance to mess arround with a Cobra for a couple of days thinking it was a race car as opposed to the UH1 truck,
Back in Nam 70 Chuck Haynes and I were testing a gun system got a call the Generals C&C ship was down took a heading fast as a Cobra can go found them out by Cambodia came in about10' there's general fist pumping gave him a salute.Our Pipesmoke came and got them.
Let's stop kidding ourselves. These guys put whooping on the enemy and save thousands of American warriors. They didn't even come close to winning this war.
Allllllllll that firepower…and the NVA/VC STILL drove the Americans out of their country, and reunited their nation under their own rule. REAL warriors.
They can thank LBJ and McNamara for that. The US could’ve easily turned the red zone in NVC into a pile of rubble, but elected not to in order to prolong the war thus increasing profits for the MIC and private contractors.
@@crazyralph6386 - You are forgetting the one and only important REAL REASON that we didn’t ‘obliterate’ North Vietnam; we did NOT want to bring in USSR/China directly into the fight and start WW3… So it was a no win situation.
Thank you for this footage. My father was a Cobra pilot with B Troop, 2/17 Air Cav, 101st Airborne Air Assault, in Vietnam '71-'72. He didn't talk much about what it was like. These videos give me a good idea of what it must have looked like for him. He died of cancer at age 48 from Agent Orange.
I thank your Father for his service to this wonderful country. I also sorry for your loss, I'm sure you love your Father very much.
I was in A Troop then.
very good footage
Finally footage without any vietnam song but the original sound
My class was the last class to go thru Ah-1G mech. School at ft eustis va. Never worked on a G model in the real world mostly s models but that was awhile ago!
Having been an AH-1G pilot in Vietnam, I appreciate this video. One minor criticism is the added sound effects of the minigun firing. In the video, it sounds more like a traditional machine gun, where you hear each round being rapidly fired. But the Cobra miniguns just made a solid roar, much like in this video: ruclips.net/video/vfRpiem7yps/видео.htmlsi=a906Y-KElvLJixyE
Could you imagine being a pilot or door gunner in a UH-1 Huey, and seeing one of these for the first time flying past you effortlessly in cruise? 😂
In 1968 I was in school at Ft Eustice VA to become Huey Crewchief/door gunner. I had the chance to mess arround with a Cobra for a couple of days thinking it was a race car as opposed to the UH1 truck,
@ haha, no doubt! it and the Hughes 500 were definitely sports cars compared to the Huey?
What a Great Fighting Machine ! Naming it Huey Cobra Means Lethal Business .
Back in Nam 70 Chuck Haynes and I were testing a gun system got a call the Generals C&C ship was down took a heading fast as a Cobra can go found them out by Cambodia came in about10' there's general fist pumping gave him a salute.Our Pipesmoke came and got them.
That's from the VHS!
Let's stop kidding ourselves. These guys put whooping on the enemy and save thousands of American warriors. They didn't even come close to winning this war.
THEY GOT THEIR ASSES KICKED ALL THE WAY BACK TO AMERICA BY A BUNCH OF RICE FARMERs.
First use sound drone to map aa capacity before large operation
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That'd put a hurting on the enemy.
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All that technology and got their asses kicked by a bunch of dedicated Rice Farmers.
Allllllllll that firepower…and the NVA/VC STILL drove the Americans out of their country, and reunited their nation under their own rule.
REAL warriors.
They can thank LBJ and McNamara for that. The US could’ve easily turned the red zone in NVC into a pile of rubble, but elected not to in order to prolong the war thus increasing profits for the MIC and private contractors.
@@crazyralph6386 - You are forgetting the one and only important REAL REASON that we didn’t ‘obliterate’ North Vietnam; we did NOT want to bring in USSR/China directly into the fight and start WW3…
So it was a no win situation.
:D
Get summm get sum !