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30-05-2004, 22:50
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History
The Imperial Attack Helicopter 2000 is the first domestically produced helicopter and was developed to give the Empire its own helicopter industry, moving the Empire ever closer to military independance (OOC: which is my goal).
Role
The IAH-2000 does not fit any generic role; rather, it is a capable CAS aircraft, andable anti-helicopter/aircraft unit. With stealth capability, with such ideas as retractable winglets and guns, as well as RAM, the IAH-2000 is suitable for more covert operations, when used in the right capacity. Which leads one to another topic: tactics.
Features
Helicopters are claimed to be obsolete by a few RL and NS nations, although that is not true. It is how the aircraft is used and made that determines this. The proliferation of more sophisticated Anti-air missiles and te weakness of helicopters is one reason why they are claimed as obsolete.
The IAH-2000 remedies this with its stealth ability and its anti-missile and anti-small arms devices. For anti-missile, the stealth, when combined with a powerful hydrogen fuel cell engine, lowers the detectability of the craft and makes it less likely to be hit by heat seeking and radar guided missiles. For small arms, all that is done is simply adding more armor to the craft to ensure that such things as an AK-47 shooting down an AH-1 do not happen to the IAH-2000.
As an added feature, only for the non-export version, the craft is to be equiped with the Army United Link System (AULS) to allow the sharing of targetting ability, enemy position information, and other tasks. In addition, (for export this time) is an infrared radar system with limited range (compared to aircraft radars) that allow the craft to operate more stealth-with its radar turned off-for those covert missions. Further stealth is given by a 5 bladed propellor, which lowers blade noise.
Armament
One automaticly guided 20mm cannon for use against infantry and limited anti-helicopter use. Cannon is retractable, and is aimed in a the same way an Apache's is: pilot looks to aim.
On the wings sit two hardpoints for anti-aircraft missiles and 6 (each) points for missile racks. These can be fired independantly at seperate enemy targets and guided by the aircraft all at the same time, with up to 10 targets for this function. This draws heavily off of Imperial experience with the IF-48 fighter's radar systems.
Cost
(for comparison)
Super Cobra costs: $10.7 million
Apache costs: $56.25 million (based off of sales to Greece)
Commanche costs: $58.9 million
IAH-2000 costs: $61 million
History
The Imperial Attack Helicopter 2000 is the first domestically produced helicopter and was developed to give the Empire its own helicopter industry, moving the Empire ever closer to military independance (OOC: which is my goal).
Role
The IAH-2000 does not fit any generic role; rather, it is a capable CAS aircraft, andable anti-helicopter/aircraft unit. With stealth capability, with such ideas as retractable winglets and guns, as well as RAM, the IAH-2000 is suitable for more covert operations, when used in the right capacity. Which leads one to another topic: tactics.
Features
Helicopters are claimed to be obsolete by a few RL and NS nations, although that is not true. It is how the aircraft is used and made that determines this. The proliferation of more sophisticated Anti-air missiles and te weakness of helicopters is one reason why they are claimed as obsolete.
The IAH-2000 remedies this with its stealth ability and its anti-missile and anti-small arms devices. For anti-missile, the stealth, when combined with a powerful hydrogen fuel cell engine, lowers the detectability of the craft and makes it less likely to be hit by heat seeking and radar guided missiles. For small arms, all that is done is simply adding more armor to the craft to ensure that such things as an AK-47 shooting down an AH-1 do not happen to the IAH-2000.
As an added feature, only for the non-export version, the craft is to be equiped with the Army United Link System (AULS) to allow the sharing of targetting ability, enemy position information, and other tasks. In addition, (for export this time) is an infrared radar system with limited range (compared to aircraft radars) that allow the craft to operate more stealth-with its radar turned off-for those covert missions. Further stealth is given by a 5 bladed propellor, which lowers blade noise.
Armament
One automaticly guided 20mm cannon for use against infantry and limited anti-helicopter use. Cannon is retractable, and is aimed in a the same way an Apache's is: pilot looks to aim.
On the wings sit two hardpoints for anti-aircraft missiles and 6 (each) points for missile racks. These can be fired independantly at seperate enemy targets and guided by the aircraft all at the same time, with up to 10 targets for this function. This draws heavily off of Imperial experience with the IF-48 fighter's radar systems.
Cost
(for comparison)
Super Cobra costs: $10.7 million
Apache costs: $56.25 million (based off of sales to Greece)
Commanche costs: $58.9 million
IAH-2000 costs: $61 million