Video courtesy of the Kiowa Delta Model mentioned in post 24 of this thread. The Kiowa Warrior's Mast Mounted Sight uses a TV camera with 12 to 1 zoom ratio, thermal imaging for white and black hot with a video tape recorder at that time, and a laser target acquisition designator (TADS).
The Blackhawks came in with Rangers, the Little Birds with Delta, including 2 Delta snipers. The original footage would have been quite high quality and used as a gun camera recorder. I never saw any weapons packages on this Kiowa when parked off to the side of the airport, nor when aloft, and as mentioned before, no interactions with the crew.
I trained a flew that model of aircraft a year later.
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