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Parent topics
- Army aviation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Air assault [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
Aircraft
- UH-1 Iroquois [r]: More often known as the "Huey", and an icon of the Vietnam War; a light tactical transport helicopter and armed helicopter, with an AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter derivative [e]
- Mi-28 (helicopter) [r]: A Russian armed helicopter, with the Western designation HAVOC, with a secondary combat search and rescue role [e]
Weapons
- M60 machine gun [r]: A widely used, U.S. designed medium machine gun firing 7.62mm NATO-standard rifle ammunition, but not itself being a NATO standard weapon [e]
- M2 machine gun [r]: A .50 caliber heavy machine gun, designed at the end of the First World War, which remains, after only slight modifications, in U.S. and worldwide service in infantry, vehicle, naval and aircraft applications [e]
- FIM-92 Stinger [r]: Add brief definition or description
Operations
- Algerian War [r]: (1954-1962) Fought by Algerians seeking independence from French colonial rule. [e]
- Vietnam War [r]: (1955-1975) war that killed 3.8 million people, where North Vietnam fought U.S. forces and eventually took over South Vietnam, forming a single Communist country, Vietnam. [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]
- Joint warfare in South Vietnam 1964-1968 [r]: The period of the Vietnam War in which large numbers of foreign ground troops, primarily but not exclusively U.S., allied with the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam against the People's Army of Viet Nam and the Viet Cong [e]