Helicopters!

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Kiowa farwell flight



http://www.businessinsider.com/kiowa-helicopters-performed-final-flight-over-fort-bragg-2016-4

What's taking over from the Kiowa?

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What's taking over from the Kiowa?

Drones and Apaches in the short term. Lakotas eventually, if the Army procures enough.

http://www.deploymentessentials.com/oh-58d-kiowa-to-be-replaced-by-uh-72-lakota-ah-64-apache/

http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/lists/posts/post.aspx?ID=1374

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Airmen from the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron jump out the back of a MH-47 Chinook Helicopter April 9, 2013

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CH-46 Sea Stallion delivers ordnance to USS Kitty Hawk (CV -63) with USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) in the background, 2002

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CH-53E during a "Max Launch" at USMC Air Station New River, Feb. 3, 2017

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Huey Bombers in Vietnam

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/8072/during-the-vietnam-war-the-u-s-army-turned-hueys-into-mad-bombers

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The Piasecki HUP on plane guard duty rescues Ensign E.H. Barry, whose AF-2 Guardian was forced to ditch after launching from the USS Block Island (CVE-106) on 12 August 1953.

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MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter flies near the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Takanami-class destroyer JS Sazanami, in the East China Sea, March 8, 2017

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Australian Defence Force Tiger ARH gets reloaded in the field during firing exercises. (1st Aviation Regiment)

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CH-53E Super Stallion flies next to the USS Bonhomme Richard during an exercise in the Pacific Ocean, March 19, 2017

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South Korean AW-159 Wildcat supporting an anti-submarine warfare training exercise in the Yellow Sea

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Marine Corps UH-1Y Venom helicopters insert Marines during a simulated raid as part of Weapons and Tactics Instructor Course 2-17 at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., April 12, 2017

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A Marine Corps Super Cobra flies by an Abrams preparing to fire at designated targets on an Egyptian firing range.