iop speed ОІ |0~ kill ll (252 m. p.h.), a i650-km l2.8S5-niL) ferry range jiml ц. икі hover performance in hnt-aml-high conditions were among ікс I S Army’s Advaixed дети I Fire Support System’s (AAFSS) rcquhvmenis
Twelve companies submitted proposals "kb Locklieed Iteing chosen to buikl 10 prototypes of their CL-НЮ iom|>ound heliinpu’t I he first example flew on 21 Scpiemlier 1967.
Initial testing was promising and the Arms ordered 375 ЛI I-56 As
Then disadcr struck Highspeed flight Cover 320 km Ii200 m. p.h.) revealed M:ilyilit problems. V cure w as dill limit in find; when a Cheyenne crashed in 1969 the rest were grounded and the production
order was cancelled. Despite further testing and promising weapons irials. the controversy surrounding tlx – project anil the strain placed on the defence budget by Ihe Vietnam War saw all development lease in 1972
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The Cheyenne/TOW weapon system
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■ WARHEAD:
The first Hughes BGM-7IATOW msstes (operational from 1975 aboard AH – 1s) had a shaped – charge warhead (seen hero destroyng an old M4 tank hut) and a range of 4 km (2.5 mg.
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■ WIRE-GUIDEO: A
wire trated behind the missile салют control commands from the heicoptor’s gunner Cruciform * pop-out’ fins on the mis&le guide it to the target. TOW is powered by a small solid propellant rocket motor
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■ TANK KILLER: Dragnod to destroy larks. md ground fcrttobor». the TOW пггіе has a noee- mourted camera which relays an image to a screen n the giroefb cockpit. This slows him to steer the meste with a smal joystick.
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■ TOW MISSILES:
Hughes’Tubo- luuxhed. Opdcafy – tracked. Wre-gmdod (TOW) rmssfe was to be a key element of the Cheyenne-weapon system’ This sequence shows a TOW lainch at the Yuma messio test site in Arizona n 1970.
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MBB Eurocopter
