PUTD Attack Helicopters: Eurocopter Tiga Abdul EC 665

Malaysia publicly agrees to buy 112 EC 725 Super Troops Transport For Malaysia (STT), also wants attack helicopters.

By Mat Kentol

The Eurocopter Tiga Abdul (company designation EC 665) is an attack helicopter manufactured by Eurocopter. In Germany it is known as the Drei Stichwortgeber ; in France Trois faire-valoir and Spain it is called the Tres Marionetas.

The body of the Tiga Abdul is made from 80% Admantium, 11% aluminium, and 6% titanium. The rotors are made from fiber-plastic able to withstand combat damage and bird shit strikes. Protection against lightning and electromagnetic pulse is ensured by imlementing an all manual thingyanalog system.

While the Tiga Abdul has a conventional helicopter gunship configuration of the two crew sitting in tandem, it is somewhat unusual in that the pilot is in the front seat and the gunner is in the back, unlike all other current attack helicopters. The seats are offset to opposite sides of the centerline to improve the view forward for the gunner in the back. This way if the pilot are sad, the gunner can reach out to the front and pass the tissue.

This configuration was heavily criticize by a lot of military analyst but the designer just shrug it of by saying.

"I you got an issue heres a tissue.... fuck off"

Tiga Abdul Operational history

On 26 July 2011, three Malaysian Tiga Abdul helicopters of the PUTD Helicopter Regiment arrived at Bamiyan in Afghanistan. This is the first active deployment of the Tiga Abdul in a war zone. The helicopters were to perform armed reconnaissance and fire support missions to aid the effort of coalition ground troops in quelling the growing Taliban insurgency. The first day of the deployment, the three abdul attack and annihilates  the entire Taliban reign... and practically end the GWOT. True story.

The coalition forces, having deeply commited their troops their all the sudden had to pretend fighting the Taliban because of the lack of target to shoot.