Comments by "Moop" (@joeis18) on "AH-1Z Viper Super Charged Air Assault Helicopter" video.

  1. The Marine Corps would've loved to have the Apache, but like soany things, it wasn't in the budget
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  2. Nah, the Apache is better, but it's more expensive. For one, there isn't a radar and the longbow system is what makes the Apache into the god-tier weapon system that it is.
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  3. The Army has more money than the Marine Corps. It's air is only its helicopters. Marine helicopters compete in the budget with jets, so everything needs to be cheap. Space is also at a premium, so Navy kit tends to be heavy compact and with interchangeable parts. The Apache is designed to do more jobs that the Zulu; it's kinda there so that the Army doesn't have to call the air force. The Marine Corps has all of those assets organically, so helicopters purely do things helicopters should do in the Marine Corps.
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  4. To be fair, everything is, haha. That's not so much the Apache being great, but the Longbow system. Putting that system on a AH-56 frame would've truly been the CAS we wanted.
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  5. Do a video on how the A-10 killed the AH-56 and gave us the AH-64. I will never not be salty about it.
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  6. That's pretty much it. Double engines, double blades, but mostly the same frame. It is heavier, though. A lot heavier, even relative to its thrust.
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