> my bots have tweeted [...] U.S. Forest Service AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters fighting fires I had to Google that. I'll await a correction from a more knowle

> my bots have tweeted [...] U.S. Forest Service AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters fighting fires I had to Google that. I'll await a correction from a more knowledgeable HNer, but as far as I can tell the US Forest Service does not have AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters. I don't care enough to dig deeply into it, but it seems that basically there is a very long line of Bell helicopters called "AH-1", going all the way back to the original AH-1 Cobra in 1965. There have been many variants over the decades, and two of these have been been retrofitted into "FireWatch" helicopters for the US Forest Service, after being retired from military service. The AH-1Z Viper is a modern attack helicopter, a variant of the SuperCobra, itself based on the AH-1 Cobra. It went into service in 2000, whereas the USFS two FireWatch Cobra's were originally built in 1969 and 1983: https://wildfiretoday.com/2010/06/27/firewatch-cobra-helicopter/ https://wildfiretoday.com/2010/06/27/firewatch-cobra-helicop...