American attack helicopter created by bell Helicopter Textron in the early 1960s. The world's first specially designed combat helicopter. With great success exploited in the Vietnam war and other armed conflicts. At the beginning of the XXI century Ah-1 helicopters continue to be in service of a number of countries, including the United States.
Armored pilot seats, cabin sides (sliding panels), side projections of the engine and part of the vulnerable structural elements. The reservation was made by installing Noroc COMPOSITE armor. There is a modification of AH-1S with improved survivability. All systems are invulnerable to a single 12.7 mm armor-piercing bullet; providing a minimum of 30 minutes of flight after a single 23 mm OFZ hit by an anti-aircraft gun ZU-23-2.
4 hardpoints can accommodate a variety of weapons: up to 4-tank TOW up to 8 PCs of anti-tank AGM-114 Hellfire (AH-1W and AH-1Z), UR type AIM-9L; up to 2 hanging gun systems, as well as NAR caliber 70 and 127 mm. And a possible suspension of up to 2 PTB.
Avionics include communications, navigation and sighting equipment (without radar), NSC. Means of defense consist of the equipment of shooting TO and LTC, and also smoke grenades.
AH-1S (-F) (AH-1S Modernized) is an anti-tank helicopter. Armed with ATGM TOW, navigation system CONUS, advanced radio equipment. 290 machines converted from AH-1G and 82 from AH-1Q.
