The latest exhibition of the Japanese army’s moe arsenal saw 2 “ita-heli” sporting moe girls on display to the general public – only the latest of Camp Kisarazu’s efforts to impress the world with its ability to paint pretty girls on the side of their old choppers.
The event was attended by bandwidth-challenged journalists but few otaku it would seem:
From last year:
Now available in kit form:
These are all just public relations/”career day” paint schemes. It’s to boost the military’s image and maybe even get a few gullible, dumb otaku to join the army. There is literally no chance in hell any JGSDF unit would fly a helicopter into combat painted like that.
I wouldn’t be so sure if I were you.
Dumb comment. Backed up by absolutely no argument whatsoever.
Okay…….so you’re flippantly assuming that the Japanese army is willing to send an attack helicopter in to battle which can be identified VISUALLY a good 3 miles SOONER thanks to it’s BIG BRIGHT NEXUS OF BRIGHT ORANGE MOE on the MIDDLE OF IT’S FUSELAGE???
Enemy: “BEAUTIFUL aim point. Thank you VERY MUCH JGSDF. We’ll take it from here. BOOM!”
JGSDF: “Dammit. Our MOE didn’t come through this time.”
The Japanese have the 3rd largest economy in the world—-SECOND in per capita terms. Give them SOME credit.
I used to have a book about WWII aircraft nose art. Crews stationed in far off nowhere would paint their favorite pinups on the side of their planes. When the war ended and things got back to more or less normal, base commanders put an end to it.
Look at all those AH-1 MOEbras their otaku military has.
These tubes, do Japanese Cobras still use TOWs, or those helis had no combat capacity since 90’s anyway?
“These tubes, do Japanese Cobras still use TOWs, or those helis had no combat capacity since 90’s anyway?”
Depends on what you understand as Combat capacity, since vs Otaku its super effective.
I don’t know why people think this is weird. American aircraft has sexy cartoon-esque girls painted on the side during WW2.
Also they’re in the air moving at fast speeds… they aren’t really seen unless coming in close for support and never close enough to tell out designs on the thing anyway. So nothing wrong with a paint job really.