Download or read book Built for Battle Helicopters written by Valerie Bodden and published by Creative Paperbacks. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armored tanks and agile fighter jets. Hovering helicopters and high-powered battleships. Carrying troops and weapons into war, these vehicles and vessels are Built for Battle. This new four-book series employs up-close and action-driven photos to help acquaint young readers with specialized military craft of the land, sea, and air and the roles they play in combat. Each title presents accessible text that explains the craft's size, features, crew, and operation, with depictions of vehicles and vessels from the past and present.
Download or read book Modern Fighting Helicopters written by Bill Gunston and published by Crescent. This book was released on 1988-12-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War launched a revolution in the military use of the helicopter. The first purpose-built attack helicopters were used, and have since become a standard fixture of every major army.
Download or read book Military Helicopters written by Mark J. Harasymiw and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Vietnam War, helicopters proved their worth to the US military. With brave crews aboard, they hovered low in the skies to rescue pilots and soldiers who were frighteningly close to enemy forces. How fascinating to think that the first helicopters couldn't even stay upright! In this book, readers will discover what it was like for the inventors of the helicopter, while also learning how this huge machine became the military necessity it is today. Exciting content, along with full-color photographs of daring rescues and high-tech equipment, will inspire readers to look to the skies. Detailed sidebars and fact boxes will keep readers engaged from cover to cover.
Download or read book ABC s of Military Helicopters written by David Blanchard and published by Perfect Commando Productions. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABC’s of Military Helicopters explores the path of rotary wing combat vehicles from the earliest past to futuristic concepts. Done in the style of a children’s ABC book, with a unique vehicle selected for each letter, and its technical data and historical over view listed side by side ABC’s of Military Helicopters is great for history, military and aviation enthusiasts of all ages.
Download or read book Built for Battle Fighter Jets written by Valerie Bodden and published by Creative Paperbacks. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armored tanks and agile fighter jets. Hovering helicopters and high-powered battleships. Carrying troops and weapons into war, these vehicles and vessels are Built for Battle. This new four-book series employs up-close and action-driven photos to help acquaint young readers with specialized military craft of the land, sea, and air and the roles they play in combat. Each title presents accessible text that explains the craft's size, features, crew, and operation, with depictions of vehicles and vessels from the past and present.
Download or read book Attack Helicopter Operations In Urban Terrain written by Major Timothy A. Jones and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s Army faces an environment much different from that which it prepared for in the Cold War. Massed armor battles on the plains of Europe, for which the Army was trained and equipped, have become much less likely while involvement in smaller and more limited conflict has become more probable. Future conflict is more likely to resemble Grenada, Panama, or Somalia than Desert Storm. As world demographics shift from rural to urban areas, the cities will increasingly become areas of potential conflict. They cannot be avoided as a likely battlefield, and have already played a prominent part in Army combat operations in the last decade. If the Army is to keep pace in this changing environment it must look to the cities when developing doctrine, technology, and force structure. The close battlefield of Mogadishu or Panama City is much different from the premier training areas of the National Training Center or Hohenfels. Yet aviators have been presented the dilemma of training for the latter environment and being deployed to the former. For most aviators facing urban combat, it is a matter of learning as they fight. To avoid the high casualties and collateral damage likely in an urban fight against a determined opponent, however. Army aviation must train and prepare before they fight. Attack helicopters are inextricably woven into the fabric of combined arms operations. But for the Army to operate effectively as a combined arms team in an urban environment, both aviators and the ground units they support must understand the capabilities and limitations attack helicopters bring to the battle. This paper presents an historical perspective of how attack helicopters have already been used in this environment. It also discusses the factors that make city fighting unique, and the advantages and disadvantages for attack helicopter employment in an urban environment, as well as implications for future urban conflicts.
Download or read book United States Military Helicopters written by Michael Green and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The helicopter came on the scene too late to play other than a minor role in the Second World War but by the Korean conflict the Bell H-13 Sioux, OH-23 Raven, and Sikorsky H–19 Chickasaw were in service.It was in Vietnam that the US military helicopters really came into their own and the best known were the Bell UH-1 Iriquois (known as the Huey), the Boeing CH-47 Chinook, and the massive CH-37 Mojave. The USAF combat search and rescue Jolly Green Giant was indispensable.Attack helicopters have evolved from the early Huey Cobra or Snake and the Boeing AH-64 Apache in the late 80s to when the Sikorsky UH-60 series became the military general purpose chopper.All these formidable aircraft and many more are covered in detail in this superbly illustrated and comprehensive book.
Download or read book American Military Helicopters and Vertical Short Landing and Takeoff Aircraft Since 1941 written by E.R. Johnson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past eight decades, developments in vertical lift aircraft--both helicopters and vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) planes--have given the American military unparalleled capabilities on the modern battlefield. The U.S. has led the world in vertical lift technologies with the help of some of the brightest minds in this field--Igor I. Sikorsky, Arthur M. Young, Frank N. Piasecki, Charles H. Kaman and Stanley Hiller, Jr., to name a few--and by having the industrial prowess to make their concepts reality. This book provides a concise historical survey, including technical specifications, drawings, and photographs of every type of helicopter and V/STOL aircraft developed for the U.S. military, from the earliest examples tested in 1941 and 1942, up to the newest prototypes.
Download or read book The World s Fastest Helicopters written by Glen Bledsoe and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history and development of some of the world's fastest helicopters, describing the specific features and specifications of such aircraft as the SA 360 Dauphin, Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche, AH-64 Apache, and V-22 Osprey.
Download or read book Helicopters written by Valerie Bodden and published by Built for Battle. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fundamental exploration of military helicopters, including their uses and carrying capacity, history of development, rotors and other features, and famous models from around the world"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Fighting Helicopters of the 20th Century written by Christopher Chant and published by Tiger Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early helicopter, from piston to turbine power, the turboshaft, the gunship helicopter, multi-role versability.
Download or read book How the Helicopter Changed Modern Warfar written by Walter Boyne and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The helicopter was introduced to warfare during World War II. Since then, it has had a profound effect at both the tactical and strategic levels. This in-depth book by a military aviation expert examines the growth of the helicopter's importance in warfare and argues convincingly that severe flaws in the military procurement process have led to U.S. troops using antiquated helicopter designs in combat despite billions spent on research and development.
Download or read book Combat Helicopters written by Jerry Scutts and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1989-09 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying gunships of the United States are one of the most potent weapons of conventional warfare. Their history and development are described in detail.
Download or read book Military Helicopters written by Hugh W. Cowin and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Combat Rescue Helicopters written by Bill Sweetman and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2002 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the design and equipment of the specialized Sikorsky helicopter known as the Pave Low and its use by the Air Force in military missions.
Download or read book Military Helicopters written by C. J. Norman and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how helicopters are used in modern warfare to carry troops and supplies, serve as reconnaissance and fighter craft, hunt and destroy submarines, and attack enemy ships.
Download or read book Military Helicopters written by Karen E. Bledsoe and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The military uses helicopters for many reasons. Each chopper is designed for its specific purpose: transporting goods and troops, sending rockets and missiles at the enemy, or some combination thereof. Learn about the different kinds of military helicopters from the men and women who use them every day.
