Baykuş
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I guess you also believe that the envelop of a hot air balloon weighs alot?I'm not sure if you're familiar with this little physics rule "everything that occupies space has a mass"
Well, sadly, the helicopter's performance does.I don't really give a damn about the weight.
The fact is, we used to hold 19 rockets in one pod rapidly emptying that pod would give the helicopter a lot of firepower, a lot of psychologic deterrent. Now the helicopters are getting silent and the firepower keeps reducing the helicopters lose their psychological effect on the enemy.
A lot of non-focused firepower, good for suppression of enemy positions. I wouldn't say that a attack helicopter looses firepower when it's equipped with the quarter of the number of unguided rockets it can carry with missiles instead (each missile carrying 3 times the heavier payload than a similar-sized rocket). Ever seen videos from the gun-cams of AH-64 Apache helicopters taking out enemies with Hydra 70:s? No, because they tend to use AGM-114 Hellfire missiles instead. Why? Because it's the matter of putting the ordinance on the target, not only within the targets general area as is the case with unguided rockets. What's the point of carrying 19 rockets if only 4~5 of them actually will hit close enough to the target to take it out?
Yeah, because the coolishness factor is so important on the battlefield...It just makes it gay-er