I always thought of them as infiltration tool for special forces. Using them to launch missiles against armored vehicles seem ill advised.
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I always thought of them as infiltration tool for special forces. Using them to launch missiles against armored vehicles seem ill advised.
Using them outside of late -1960s James Bond films seems ill advised!
Edit: The PLA version seems less well armed than the 1968 vintage UK version as well:
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That video had tons of views and comments after only a couple days . Got me curious. about the use of those light helicopter type things, the Comments mentioned special forces too. I suppose their biggest strengths are very maneuverable, small size, speedy and cheap. But they have very little protection.
It's a gyro copter. Not a helicopter. It cannot hover.
Is it possible that the missile slung by the side are not meant for the gyro to shoot at enemy directly? I mean with tandem seats arrangement it has no internal space. They can fly in atgm team behind enemy lines for ambush.
Yes I know it doesn't hover. The video alluded to that. I didn't know the English term for it so just called it helicopter type thing
Should be ZZC-something, right?
Even insertion of special forces seems somewhat dubious? We've seen in the current Ukr-Rus conflict that a large amount of infantry held short ranged anti air can greatly diminish the viability of helicopters in the troop transport role, unless they're basically kissing the ground the whole way to insertion I think they'll be taking heavy casualties just from infantry held anti-air, plus gyrocopters can be quite loud.
Additionally from the video it does not seem that the gyrocopter can carry all that much load, limiting its utility for special operations as compared to say, a mountain cat amphibious transport that is helicopter dropped close to the front. Seems like both recon/light attack role could be better served using similarly sized UAVs.
any waaay... let's get back to the topic, shall we?
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A rare frontal view of the turret. I wonder what that boxy protrusion on the starboard side of the turret is for. It could well be a (retractable) missile launcher. The 2nd image shows what could be vents on the backside of the box, which comports with the missile launcher theory. It looks like the box takes up quite a bit of space, that and the location of the optical turret ball (?) might indicate an unmanned turret.
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