Wow, I am excited about the AH-1S. I am so glad we get the classic, Cold War, TOW slinging tank hunter Cobra. THE original anti-tank gunship. The AH-1S is easily my most favorite helicopter and I didn’t dare to hope that we would get this unlikely variant.
I can’t believe that with the F-14A, F-4E and AH-1S, most of my 5 top-wanted aircraft are actually in production. Only missing now is the A-7E and A-6E. And sooner or later the Intruder is going to be announced by Heatblur too (I am fully convinced this is already in early production).
I also would’ve preferred the AH-1W but the S is fine. Leaves more room for an AH-64 in the lineup later!
F-4E is what the 21 really needed to face. Glad to see it coming, but I think it will need that F-14 backseat AI as well. I don’t care as much for the early and USN gunless versions so I’m happy with the E choice.
I’m sure I’ll get the 16 but I can’t really muster much enthusiasm for it after decades of Falcon and Strike Fighters. I would prefer a Beagle but if the Falcon is our first multirole AF bird so be it.
Hind. Hmmm. On the fence. I did like DI’s Hind back in the day, and also when it became flyable in the EECH/AH mods, but it always seemed to let me down in some way.
Well it is a machine that tried to do two different things at the same time; lug troops around and be a gunship. That makes it suboptimal at either role. Still, it’s a motherlovin hind man!
Time to queue another chipwich analogous tangent. One of my business partners and I were exchanging “my dad did this in the Vietnam war” stories, when he threw this on the table. Charles’ dad performed a amazing deed with his Cobra.
No, I agree with you- don’t get me wrong… just as soon as the mission was announced it seemed like EVERYONE and their mothers complained about that. I think someone even posted evidence that mission practically happened but no f-ocks were given still.
I for one love missions outside the norm (also because I learned many real life missions don’t really go “normally”) and always hope to see special content.