Jul 142011
I recently saw some photos of the S-67 Blackhawk (a prototype attack helicopter from 1970-74) online. The photos were really badly faded, for no recognizably good reason I did some tinkering. Couldn’t improve the resolution or the focus, but the fading vanished nicely and the colors came back out. So, enjoy.
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It would suffer from one problem the Lockheed Cheyenne also had; it’s a mighty big target for ground fire, and something that large is hard to armor heavily enough without it getting so heavy it can’t even get off the ground.
“Big target” was not any part of the reason the Cheyenne was cancelled, and the Apache ain’t exactly tiny.
It was a major reason besides it’s cost; The Huey Cobra was a much smaller target, especially head-on. One thing I could never figure out about the Cheyenne was why the canopy was so gawdawful big, when what you would want is a lot less glazing and all of that bullet resistant.
By the time we got to Apache, we had lots of Vietnam experience with helicopters coming under hails of small caliber automatic gunfire from the ground, and new types of composite lightweight armor to protect vital systems with. Battle damage survivability on the Apache was such key aspect of its design that it could have holes blown in the rotor blades by 23mm cannon fire and keep on flying.