How come Russian helicopters look way more badass than American? 🤔
They look like flying tanks, American ones look like showy supercars
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Russian helicopters are bouba
American helicopters are kiki
For military helicopters, bouba > kiki
All fighter aircraft are kiki
A10 warthog is a ground attack plane that is bouba because it has helicopter type mission
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Russian are utility optimized + they were designed in USSR were brutalism was the leading design tendency.
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An engineer tried explaining this to me once. With attack helicopters, it's a kind of pizza triangle. Mobility, Armor, Firepower. Pick two. If you try to pick all three, it'll end up expensive and not very good at any of the three.
Russians went with armor and firepower.
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