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Parent topics
- Army Cooperation Aviation [r]: Light aircraft, capable of operating from minimal forward airfields, which were under the direct control of ground forces commanders rather than part of a country's air arm [e]
- United States Army [r]: Branch of the United States Armed Forces with the principal responsibility of conducting large-scale ground combat [e]
- Air mobility [r]: The set of disciplines, resources and techniques required for the rapid air movement of military forces and their equipment. Air assault, in which the air movement takes troops into battle, is a subset. [e]
- Air assault [r]: Military operations in which infantry are carried by aircraft onto, or very near, the target, or by parachuting. The aircraft may be helicopters, tilt-rotor aircraft, short-landing transports, or, historically, gliders. [e]
- Fort Rucker [r]: Located in Alabama (U.S. state), the central base for U.S. Army Aviation development, readiness and training [e]
Subtopics
Active aircraft
- CH-47 Chinook [r]: Medium transport helicopter developed by the U.S. Army and used by a wide range of countries [e]
- Armed helicopter [r]: A helicopter that can be configured to carry troops or cargo only, light weapons and troops, or possibly a heavier ammunition load with still-removable weapons. [e]
- MH-6 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- UH-60 Blackhawk [r]: A family of light transport helicopters used by the U.S. services, including the standard troop carrier UH-60 Blackhawk, naval rescue and surface/subsurface warfare, and the MH-60 special operations variant that is not really a Black Helicopter but instead very, very dark gray [e]
- Attack helicopter [r]: A helicopter equipped with built-in heavy weapons, which has no standard cargo capacity and is used as a "flying tank" in close air support or battlefield air interdiction. [e]
- AH-1 Cobra [r]: The first purpose-built U.S. attack helicopter, introduced by the U.S. Army in the Vietnam War; the U.S. Marine Corps still operates a much-modified version [e]
- AH-6 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AH-64 Apache [r]: A United States Army attack helicopter capable of day/night missions in all weather. [e]
- OH-58 Kiowa Warrior [r]: A United States Army helicopter with extensive sensors for surveillance and guiding weapons fired by other air or ground weapons platforms, and also is a light attack helicopter on its own rights. [e]
Intelligence
- Signals intelligence collection, aircraft-based [r]: An aircraft or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that carries signals intelligence sensors [e]
- RC-12 GUARDRAIL [r]: U.S. Army signals intelligence aircraft that are assigned to corps-level intelligence brigades, and fly in groups of three, transmitting data, without analysis, to a ground station [e]
- Airborne Reconnaissance Low [r]: A multifunction U.S. Army intelligence collection aircraft, available in small numbers and to be replaced by the Airborne Common Sensor [e]
- Airborne Common Sensor [r]: A manned U.S. Army battlefield signals intelligence and imaging radar aircraft, to use a business jet or turboprop airframe, which will replace the Airborne Reconnaissance Low and RC-12 GUARDRAIL aircraft, and complement unmanned aerial vehicle and other battlefield sensors. [e]
Unmanned aerial vehicle
- MQ-8 [r]: A multipurpose unmanned aerial vehicle, in the form of a helicopter with relatively long endurance, whose functions include surveillance and communications relay [e]
Historic aircraft
- H-19 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- H-23 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- H-34 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- O-1 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- UH-1 [r]: Add brief definition or description
Avionics
- AN/APG-78 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AN/APR-39A(V) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AN/APR-48A Radar Frequency Interferometer Electronic Support [r]: Add brief definition or description target acquisition system
- AN/ALQ-144 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AN/AVR-2 [r]: Add brief definition or description laser warning receiver
- AN/ALQ-36(V) [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionradar jammer
- ALE-47 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- ALQ-144 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- HAVE QUICK II [r]: Add brief definition or description
Deconfliction
- Air defense artillery [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Army Airspace Command and Control [r]: Add brief definition or description
Aviation units, regular Army
Vietnam War operations
- U.S. support to South Vietnam before Gulf of Tonkin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tactical Mobility Requirements Board [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vietnam War military technology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 1st Cavalry Division [r]: Add brief definition or description
Special operations
- 160th Special Operations Aircraft Regiment [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dell Dailey [r]: Add brief definition or description