{"id":55,"date":"2006-05-18T16:41:27","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T08:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2006-05-18T16:46:50","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T08:46:50","slug":"a-study-of-installing-20-mm-cannons-on-hh-1h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"A Study of Installing 20-mm Cannons on HH-1H"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0early 1976, AIDC was ordered to study the feasibility of installing 20-mm cannons on the HH-1H to\u00a0convert it into a gunship.\u00a0 AIDC then studied the following three possible modifications:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1. Installed under fuselage: There would not be enough ground clearance.<\/p>\n<p>2. Installed under fuselage with lengthened skid struts: The center of gravity would become higher, which may cause problems in strong crosswind landings.<\/p>\n<p>3. Carried on both sides of fuselage: Four cannons could be carried.\u00a0 However, recoil would incur excessive stress on the structure.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, AIDC concluded that the installation was not economically feasible and requested ROCAF General Headquarters for permission to suspend the research.<\/p>\n<p>The following document is courtesy of MND Archives.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/hh1h_cannon_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/hh1h_cannon_2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/hh1h_cannon_3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/hh1h_cannon_4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/hh1h_cannon_5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0early 1976, AIDC was ordered to study the feasibility of installing 20-mm cannons on the HH-1H to\u00a0convert it into a gunship.\u00a0 AIDC then studied the following three possible modifications:\u00a0 1. Installed under&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-hh-1h"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}