Modern Drawings/Air/USA/Helicopter/AH-1G-Cobra.htm | Update: 09-12-2011

 

Company C, 2/20th Aerial Rocket Artillery (ARA) - Bu Dop, Vietnam, May 1970

 

 

Cobra with Southeast Asia scheme during post-Vietnam war period !

 

 

Specifications (AH-1G)
General

Type: Attack Helicopter
Crew: 2
First flight: 7 September 1965
Introduction: 1967
Number built: 1116
Powerplant
1 × Lycoming T53-L-11 turboshaft, 1100 shp
Dimensions/Masses
Length: 16.2 m (with rotors turning) | Fuselage length: 13.5 m
Height: 4.12 m | Width: 3.15 m | Main rotor diameter: 13.4 m
Empty weight: 2630 kg | Max takeoff weight: 4310 kg
Performances
Maximum speed: 352 km/h | Ferry range: 574 km
Service ceiling: 3475 m
Armament
  • 2 × 7.62 mm (0.308 in) multi-barrel Miniguns, or 2 × M129 40 mm Grenade launchers, or one of each, in the M28 turret.
  • 2.75 in (70 mm) rockets - 7 rockets mounted in the M158 launcher or 19 rockets in the M200 launcher
  • M18 7.62 mm Minigun pod or XM35 armament subsystem with XM195 20 mm cannon

 

 

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