In article ,
Scott MacEachern wrote:

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 18:24:42 -0800, Steve Hix
wrote:

All support, not attack types. (You *do* know what a Hughes 300 is,
right? Useful for initial training, not so useful for battlefield use.)

Yup. I also know about the various versions of the Hughes 500 ....
Hughes Defenders, AH-6/MH-6 and so on. In any case, this is not the
newsgroup where I'd expect to find dismissal of the military
importance of transport and training systems.

As far as transport copters, the Iraqis had plenty of actual big Russian
transport copters, four-seat Bell machines aren't even going to rate.

120 US helicopters is insignificant compared to 169 French
helicopters? When do they start being significant? 130? 140? 150?

When they start being attack helicopters, like the French and Russian
birds.

According to the IISS Military Balance for 2000-2001, there were still
Bell 214s, Hughes 300C, Hughes 500D and Hughes 530Fs (?) still in
service with the Iraqi army.

Like those MiG-25s that were "still in service" buried under six feet of
sand, I suppose.

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