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Old 17th Dec 2014, 14:09
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chopper2004
 
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Though during the time when the AH-58D armed Kiowa Warrior was about to be declassified after the return to Ft Bragg from the Gulf.....they were armed with MIM-32A Stinger. The AH-58D had replaced or supplemented the Nightstalkers A/MH-6 operating off the barges with SEALs on board during Pray Mantis / Prime Chance.

Rumor had it that the Stingers may have been fired against Iranian fighters according to Hans Halberstadt's Army Aviation (Presidio Power series pub circa 1989)

Were we not toying with Blowpipe / Javelin trials on Gazelle in the 80s but nothing came of fruition?

The 80s trials at White Sands with AH-64 firing an AIM-9L but it was not standard arm for the army but again during the Persian Gulf, the USMC armed their AH-1T then AH-1W with AIM-9L.

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