During the Vietnam War, the US military used most advanced weapons, including rifles, shotguns, mortars, anti-tank weapons, anti-aircraft weapons, chemical weapons, armored vehicles, self-propelled artillery, fighters, bombers, etc. Among them, Chinook CH-47 was an effective helicopter for transporting goods, troops as well as heavy weapons on the Vietnam battlefield, which had a limited road transport system at that time.
HISTORY
The “Sky Monster” CH-47 is an American twin-engined, tandem-rotor, heavy-lift helicopter, first introduced by American rotorcraft company Vertol in 1962, and manufactured by Boeing Vertol, later known as Boeing Rotorcraft Systems. Although initially in the late 1950s, the US Army was interested in a design called Vertol 107, which later became CH-46. But eventually, they chose a much larger project, a heavier transport helicopter with a designation Vertol 114. The Vertol 114 was essentially an extended derivative of V-107. It was originally designated as YCH-1B, but after its introduction in 1962, it was redesigned to CH-47. Its name, Chinook, is derived from the name of a Native American tribe of modern-day Washington State. read more
