AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Those last two pics the cockpit looks like a modernized Huey with a pointy nose. Paint some jaws under that chin.
Z-21/Z-X heavy attack helicopter
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Because other helicopters and attack helicopters as primarily Army equipment, have been included in this section of the forum as well, and changing and reorganizing it is likely to be a bit confusing.
The lack of consistency is something we're aware of, for example why is the J-XY/35 in the navy part of the forum rather than air force if we were organizing systems and platforms to sections based on if they were aerial in nature or naval in nature.
All good questions, and the answer is "don't think about it lalalalala"
"Contrary to others, the appearance of this thing is one which I think is quite good. [¶] As with any attack helicopter there's a certain ugliness to it, but there is nothing too odd .... [¶] .... This thing doesn't look much different from Z-10, Apache, Roovialk, A129, LCH, Roovialk, T929 ...."
perfect summary!"Suitably ugly, so it already ticks the first box required for any attack helicopter."
Exactly. People are of course entitled to their own opinions regarding aesthetics, but for those who are vomit-emojiing over the Z-21's looks, I'm curious: What did you expect?
On a separate note, it's nice to see the upturned exhausts. Not only is the IR mitigation good in and of itself, but the exhausts are evidence that the Z-21 has sufficiently powerful engines from the get-go (unlike the Z-10).
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
The first I think was from the war zone which was published just a bit earlier than that one, but it's not like either they or eurasian times are worth our attention.
I remember reading that during class.
For some reason I thought it was a Ka-52 when I first saw it.
cn_habs
Junior Member
In this layout, the person sitting in the back doesn't really have any forward visibility.