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.

They didn't get AH-6/MH-6, did they?

were
delivered to Iraq, and were in service just before GW1. That's hardly
'a few small helicopters'.

Compared to the 215 Russian and 169 French military types in 1990, they
were.
(http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...-equipment.htm)

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

No, it was 120 (lots being Hughes 300s) compared to 384 others.