After Nearly 50 Years As the Army's Workhorse, The Venerable Kiowa Helicopter Is Taking Flight Again
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- čas přidán 17. 01. 2020
- The distinctive and venerable OH-58 Kiowa helicopter, mothballed and grounded in the dry desert of Arizona, after being retired from U.S. Army service with almost 50 years of service, is finding its wings again in Greece.
The OH-58 is a single-engine, single-rotor military helicopter used primarily for observation, utility, and direct fire support. The OH-58D Kiowa Warrior version is primarily used as a light attack and armed reconnaissance helicopter to support troops fighting on the ground.
Source: Business Insider
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Thanks America we appreciate those helicopters 👍
Thank you for these Helicopters! And thank you for all the support! For hundreds of years we have been on the same path in history and we will continue to do so.
I was at the port of this city when they came to Greece and i saw all them ! This machine is badass !! Specially for the border islands !
My Dad worked with those and shortly after the end of the Kiowa Program He passed away. I miss the Times with Him and being close to those awesome Helicopters
RIP Robert A. Fillman
My dad used to fly these. He was in the army for 19 years. A few hellfires, few rpg, children throwing rocks at the heli. Crazy world over there / here
Cool Im a Kiowa warrior from Oklahoma! Half Apache From Apache Oklahoma.
I went to Fort Rucker Alabama helicopter mechanic school. I still recall the torques on the main rotor drive shaft. 50 to 60 inch pounds. I removed engines and transmissions. Some in my platoon scoped the main rotor blades. Some used a long pole with masking tape to track the blades . I flew one mile in a Bell OH/ 58 helicopter with a test pilot with me. It was lots of fun. You just must remember a helicopter can give out at any time . Parts some times fail. So some helicopter crashes are mechanical or pilot error . Some pilots fly into telephone wires. Some get lost in the clouds. Because they do not use air traffic control. Or some are not trained on instrument flying only. So they do not know how to fly at night. Some have problems when flying into the clouds. This has caused lots and lots of helecopter crashes. Pilots get confused and forget exactly where they are at. They don't know what direction they are going. If I was a helecopter pilot would avoid flying into the clouds if at all possible. This is exactly what happened to a very experienced helicopter pilot that was flying Lacker basket ball player , Coby Brayant . The helicopter pilots was in a big hurry to fly Coby Brayant to a special occassion . The pilot flew into a cloud and hit a rock mountain and as a result the helicopter crashed. The Holy Bible says : Haste makes waste. I would never fly into a cloud if I was a helicopter pilot . Its better to know exactly where you are at all times. Plus if possible to see , what is in front . What is behind. What is left and what is to the right of you. My pilot flew into the side of a volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii . He was only 19 years old . He was just out of flight school. Coincidently as my pilot was doing his pre-flight inspection . As I was sitting in the cockpit seat. I heard a strong voice three times. The voice said," DON'T FLY"!. I heard this strong voice three times. When the pilot finished his pre-flight . I asked the pilot if I could sit in a truck I was not feeling very good. I was sitting on the floor of a truck. About ten minutes later it sounded like a lawn mower hitting a rock. My pilot crashed ito the side of the volcano on the Big Island in Hawaii. So I believe in God and angels. God will speak to us. Its up to us to ,liston or to hear His voice. Or pay the consequences.
👍👍👍 Это разведывательный вертолет, работает один или в группе. Напичкан всякой мощной электроникой, передает данные о целях в воздухе и на земле. Что дает преемущество увидеть первым врага на большом растоянии. И сам может иметь кое какое вооружение, в зависимости от поставленной задачи. Есть фильм очень старый, где снимался в главной роли Николас Кейдж. Молодцы американцы развитая и мощьная Страна. Удачи в уничтожении диктаторов!
I flew all models of the Kiowa, OH-58 A/C/C+ and of course the Kiowa Warrior. I have over 6,000 hours in the Kiowa Warrior. The Kiowa Warrior has more combat hours than any other modern Army helicopter, and it had the highest operational readiness rate in all of aviation, the things just didn't break. Of course the Army in it's infinite wisdom got rid of the Kiowa Warrior because it was only a single engine aircraft, a huge mistake. They passed the mission of the Kiowa onto the Apache, a helicopter with the worst operational readiness rate. I miss flying the KW, it was a great aircraft as long as you knew its limitations. There wasn't a single mission the KW couldn't accomplish even against the Apache. Now the Army will be waiting for another two decades before they come up with a replacement for the KW, and I guarantee it will be a tech nightmare for maintainers and will have an abyssal OR rate like the Apache.
Thank you USA. We will take good care of them.
the title is kind of misleading. The OH-58 was rolled out in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior models were made in the late 1980s and in the 1990s. The D_Model birds sold to Greece are the newest, and were refurbished in the 1990s and 2000s.
That voice is rare to me!
Yes! We have eyes on! Tell us what you see? It’s important! Fitted with extra fuel! She can linger for quite a while. Avionics provide us coverage,.....eyes provide. “Situational Awareness”. Remember the long life of the skyraider! In a jet filled world,....kicking ass! Doing what she does best!
Kiowas are badass. Wish the army had a replacement for them. We need a light attack helicopter. Apaches cant fill the role kiowas performed.
Love this army.
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Me too
Sell your Kiowa attack helicopters to the Philippine armed forces because they have the budget for this. Sales, spare parts and service included. Thank you. God bless America!!!
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Greece.., excellent choice, wise evn, so too are Croatia & Tunisia.
Malaysian Def Dept.., shud too do as what the mentioned others here had done & jump right-on this chance opportunity in earnest, while stocks last. That sed, tho probably, it' be better that "ours ?" (if it can be put in such a way ?) (presumably so, that all granted "IF" we truly are at all serious at that, this time 'round ) be instead powered by the venerated for single-engine reliability Pratt & Whitney Canada PT-6B - 37A, similar to the ones what the Agusta-Westland AW 119 Koala had for its propulsion.
Better then the “Destroyer Deal” of WWII! These actually can be made fully functional,...and quite useful!
I wish canada would have done this deal, we could use them and the price sounds right. Only question is how would they stand up to our -40 winters
Well this things were stationed in Finland for a while.
AZ National Guard received 4 of them from the MN National Guard, They had high capacity heaters installed and high skids, that AZ took off.
buy Mil Mi8 from Russia
Canada is a former operator of the kiowa, known as CH-136.
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Croatian Airforce bought not sure the number but their loaded down woth the Kiowa
Kiowa Warrior it was nice recon helicopter and did work hidden, to make eyes on the battlefield for Apache but...
How many Apache did cooperates at the same time with one Kiowa?... 2? 4? or more? Its true? In 80s Apache without Kiowa was ineffective?
an old single-engine helicopter what could possibly go wrong:)
Do not just parkyour Kiowa attack helicopters in boneyard of Davis Air Force Base, Arizona because this can be of good use to our Philippine armed forces in terms of interdiction, reconnaissance and intelligence gathering. Sell this to our Philippine air force.
So we sold them at cost? I guess that saves us storage fees?
@ The US sells Turkey fighter jets and missiles...
The US has replaced them in service with the Apache 64E Guardian and UAVs. In objective terms the Kiowas are obsolete in both technology and how the Army manages reconnaissance missions. The Kiowa fleet was slated to be sold via military aide programs from the start as soon as the decision was made to retire them. Those programs are intended to give US strategic allies military equipment they wouldnt otherwise be able to afford. The Greek government is broke and the country bankrupted a few years ago and has been rebuilding itself since. Selling part of the Kiowa fleet to them gets them equipment they need that they can actually afford. And yes it save on storage costs, the boneyards cost the US billions of dollars a year to maintain. The vehicles in those yards are kept nearly operational and arent left to rot. A country like Greece would get accepted into that program where as a country like Saudi Arabia would be told to buy brand new.
@ Exactly Mongol
@Kev they just attach it to the nose instead of the top
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I guarantee you they worked hard n long to get every single one in the air.
Kiowas are very agile and fast
Flight of the valkryies
Υπαρχει τροπος να μπει στα καιοβα σπαικνλος;
active noise cancelling
USA 👍👍👍🇲🇨
That helicopter is like a spotter for Apaches and other attack helicopters isn't it? I can't think of the name of the other bird I'm thinking about.
It was. Its been replaced by UAVs and the Apache Guardian.
Flying over NC Arkansas at about 250AGL hmmmm
The one that should replace it was cancelled.....or so they say. The RAH-66 Comanche
Why American army using OH-58? It has low payload and only two pylon. If they want fast helicopter, they already have AH-6. But why Kiowa producing?
@@sekokotakin4252 It was a support helicopter for the Apache due to hunter killer concept. the low payload is deceiving as well as it can carry alot. its been combat proven.
Cue "Fortunate Son."
As taxpayer, i say auction them without weapons...
Why do the Greeks want our old military equipment?
Because they're still badass....
Because they can’t afford new.
We can it’s just need quantity than quality for now and they quite a good punch for support
Much of our "old" military equipment can still function effectively. LOL I doubt that the Turks are happy knowing Greece is deploying them...
The Greek government bankrupted itself several years ago and is in the middle of rebuilding its military.
You should have sold it also to your loyal ally, The Philippines. They will buy it, not given for free. They badly needed it to deter China.
The Phillipines is hardly loyal. Duterte is a homicidal dictator thats does business with the Chinese Communist Party...
Nothing against the Philippines people. But Duterte is insane
good very good and keep be are number one and keep be are the stronger 💪💪💪💪💪
bcouse i look other country on Asia that is a China
they claim had nuclear and state claim they have the largest warships in the world and claims to have the strongest force in the world
Robot voice ,bye!
You gotta be short on money and in a desperate situation to resuscitate those kiowas.
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