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Able to hug the terrain and avoid detection (until too late) by flying "nap-of-the-earth," during the Cold War it became the primary "tank-buster" in both the U.S. and USSR armies. Today, helicopters are as useful as they are ubiquitous in military operations, doing everything from recon, to medivac, to troop insertion and recovery, to providing close air support with guns and missiles.