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George Wallace said:Just a point that I have 'pointed out' to others in the AFV Recognition lines of discusion....The USMC has a lot of its equipment predeployed aboard ship. A Super Cobra is very small, it, besides offering a smaller head-on profile, takes up little space compared to an Apache. As such you can fit two or three Super Cobras in the space that an Apache may take up aboard ship.
Now ask yourself; "Would I want one Apache in support of my Operation, or two or three Super Cobras?"
George,
I've posted this before, but I would hardly say that the Super Cobra is "very small". It's actually longer than the Apache by about a foot when the rotors are turning. It's slightly lighter than the Apache at all up weight, but we're talking less than 500lbs difference between the AH-1W and the AH-64A, the AH-64D is a little over 1000 lbs heavier than the AH-1W. Rotor diameter is within 1 ft of each other. The only dimension the AH-64 is much bigger in is width of fuselage due to the larger winglets, it's 6 ft wider than the AH-1.
The major difference when storing them is that the AH-1W has only two rotor blades vs the 4 of the AH-64, and since the Apache doesn't fold, the Cobra is easier to store. Having said that, the AH-1Z is coming online and it has 4 blades, so the difference between the two size wise will be next to nil.