THE ARMY DOZEN AND THE BELL H-13K SIOUX HELICOPTER ON THE WARPATH 84284

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This historic film THE ARMY DOZEN AND THE H-13K SIOUX ON THE WARPATH was created by Bell Helicopter to showcase 12 “nap of the earth“ maneuvers for pilots. Nap-of-the-earth (abbreviated NOE) is a type of very low-altitude flight course used by military aircraft to avoid enemy detection and attack in a high-threat NOE flight, geographical features are used as cover, exploiting valleys and folds in the terrain by flying in, rather than over, them. This keeps below enemy air defense radar coverage, avoiding being silhouetted against the sky. Other, mostly older terms include “ground-hugging“, “terrain masking“, “flying under the radar“ and “hedgehopping“. The so-called “Army Dozen,“ a series of twisting, weaving and dodging flight configurations developed informally, in some cases borrowed or improved upon from tactics used by agricultural helicopt