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Originally Posted by Suhiir
The US Army formally adopted an armed version of the OH-23 Raven (two 30's) after Korea.
Now, if it was actually fielded is another story! But it was officially adopted.
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Yes. That’s what I meant. The U.S. Army formally adopted armed versions of the two helos with 2x30’s (which is what I meant by the XM-1 system) after the Korean War. Not 1946 or 1951.
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Originally Posted by Suhiir
As came up in the discussion in my custom OOB thread there were ad-hoc field mods of the system for years before the "official" version was adopted.
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I’m not sure whether these alleged field mods should be in the game. It seems to me that they must have been very rare. When, for example, I quickly flicked through
Whirlybirds: U.S. Marine Helicopters in Korea I could not find any reference to armed helicopters at all. Improvised or otherwise. I could have missed them though. Please give me some page references if you have them. I certainly haven’t seen armed helos in any of the books about the Korean War that I have read. Not so much as a photo.
It boils down to this. When people are playing games set during the Korean War I don’t think armed helos should be on the menu. Helos were not used in a ‘gunship’ role at that time and if there were any improvised armed scouts I think they must have been relatively rare.