Apache Helicopter vs. Black Hawk Helicopter

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Apache Helicopter vs. Black Hawk Helicopter Sometimes, when you are driving like any normal day, you may see a military helicopter flying around, but you may not pay too much attention because you always see it in the air, flying normally but, do you know how these machines work? How these machines serve this country and save lives? Why soldiers in battlefield feel more secure, when they hear the blades above them? Well helicopters mixed with technology, have given us better control over the enemy and saved soldiers’ lives. This is accomplished by having the best helicopters in the world. An attack helicopter and a transport helicopter, the Black Hawk (UH-60) and the Apache (AH-64). There are other helicopters, the Chinook and Kiowa, but they have different purposes on the battlefield, they also save lives in their own way. The Kiowa is used as an observation helicopter (OH-58) and the Chinook is used as a cargo helicopter (CH-47), On the other hand the Apache has the best accuracy for targets and the Black Hawk has the ability to put soldiers in the enemy zone without endangering the mission. Let’s start explaining how both work, like cars they have an engine, a car’s engine creates the power to move the wheels under the car, helicopters engines have a similar function, they give the power to rotate the 4-blade main rotor and a single 4- blade tail rotor. How does engine work? They create rotation and that rotation is transported to the main rotor and tail rotor, or on your car to the wheels, by a long high tech drive shaft, which looks like a tube. For example: Let say the engine is your hand, the high tech tube is a screw driver and the main rotor, or the wheel on your car is the screw, so your hand has the power and by the screw driver all that power is transported to the screw. The helicopters have 6 or more

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