Baykuş
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mass and weight are two different things. I believe air has the same mass regardless of it's temperature. And I'm having trouble believing that pod is full of hot air.
What I really meant was that the cubic-looking pod might be pretty hollow, thus not as heavy as one might think judging by the size of it.
I disagree with you strongly Baykuş, M197 20mm on T129 is already VERY accurate. More accurate than the chaingun on Apache. And I've seen in videos Turkish cobra pilots unload their rocket pods on terrorists aggressively. And T129 isn't as armored as Apache, the enemy doesn't need a ZSU-23, a DShK can easily ruin your day. Threats are very real, you need every bit of that suppressive fire. A hydra rocket may fall a couple of meters off your target but any sane person will run for his life.
I get your point, brother. But now with guided missiles, our AH:s might take out targets from further away without having to put themselves into the danger-zone, yet they can put those missiles right on the targets instead of spray-and-praying with unguided rockets or without having to get close enough to use the cannon. Thus, my point is that they won't need as many missiles as rockets to be able to take targets out. If they used to need 4 unguided rockets (which I argue is hard to put right on targets) to take a target or a group of closely stacked targets out before, it will now suffice with a single well-placed missile that also carries a heavier warhead. Sure, it would be awesome if a pod could be loaded with 48 Cirit-missiles, but the question is if the use for them outweighs the extra weight added to the helicopter.
Well, sorry if I misunderstood you then. But we don't know if it's useless or not. It probably has a purpose - that's what I like to believe at least.By gay I meant useless.