GamersCrib
06-27-2008, 11:38 AM
The Eve of Destruction 2 mod team comes at us this week with their latest update showing off a new helicopter. Lets take a look:
The Sikorsky S-58 was developed from the Sikorsky's UH-19 Chickasaw. The aircraft first flew on March 8, 1954. It was initially designated HSS-1 Seabat (in its anti-submarine configuration) and HUS-1 Seahorse (in its utility transport configuration) under the US Navy designation system. Under the US Army's system, also used by the fledgling US Air Force, the helicopter was designated H-34. The US Army applied the name Choctaw to the helicopter. In 1962, under the new unified system, the Seabat was redesignated SH-34, the Seahorse as the UH-34, and the Choctaw as the CH-34.
French evaluations on the reported ground fire vulnerabilities of the CH-34 may have influenced the U.S. Army's decision to deploy the CH-21 Shawnee to Vietnam instead of the CH-34, pending the introduction into widespread service of the Bell UH-1 Iroquois. However, the approximately twenty Army H-34s that did eventually reach Vietnam proved no more vulnerable to ground fire than any other rotary-wing aircraft in the theater, and the CH-34 successfully carried out missions ranging from combat assault to aeromedical evacuation and general cargo transport.
http://gamerscrib.net/pics/thumb_screen001if2.jpg (http://gamerscrib.net/pics/screen001if2.jpg) http://gamerscrib.net/pics/thumb_screen000ld4.jpg (http://gamerscrib.net/pics/screen000ld4.jpg) http://gamerscrib.net/pics/thumb_screen004dn1.jpg (http://gamerscrib.net/pics/004dn1.jpg)
If you wish to check out all of the information released in this new update, visit here. (http://www.eodmod.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3004)
The Sikorsky S-58 was developed from the Sikorsky's UH-19 Chickasaw. The aircraft first flew on March 8, 1954. It was initially designated HSS-1 Seabat (in its anti-submarine configuration) and HUS-1 Seahorse (in its utility transport configuration) under the US Navy designation system. Under the US Army's system, also used by the fledgling US Air Force, the helicopter was designated H-34. The US Army applied the name Choctaw to the helicopter. In 1962, under the new unified system, the Seabat was redesignated SH-34, the Seahorse as the UH-34, and the Choctaw as the CH-34.
French evaluations on the reported ground fire vulnerabilities of the CH-34 may have influenced the U.S. Army's decision to deploy the CH-21 Shawnee to Vietnam instead of the CH-34, pending the introduction into widespread service of the Bell UH-1 Iroquois. However, the approximately twenty Army H-34s that did eventually reach Vietnam proved no more vulnerable to ground fire than any other rotary-wing aircraft in the theater, and the CH-34 successfully carried out missions ranging from combat assault to aeromedical evacuation and general cargo transport.
http://gamerscrib.net/pics/thumb_screen001if2.jpg (http://gamerscrib.net/pics/screen001if2.jpg) http://gamerscrib.net/pics/thumb_screen000ld4.jpg (http://gamerscrib.net/pics/screen000ld4.jpg) http://gamerscrib.net/pics/thumb_screen004dn1.jpg (http://gamerscrib.net/pics/004dn1.jpg)
If you wish to check out all of the information released in this new update, visit here. (http://www.eodmod.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3004)