WTH: Army ends Comanche program

[GTaudiophile]

Blow to our defense?

 

[NFS4]

REPOST

 

[GTaudiophile]

LOL. I SWEAR I searched for Comanche and got nothing.

 

[bradruth]

Haven't they been talking about ending that for a few years?

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Originally posted by: NFS4
REPOST

Which, ironically, was also a repost.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: KnightBreed

Originally posted by: NFS4
REPOST

Which, ironically, was also a repost.

Why would I go the politics forum to talk about airplanes/helicopters?

 

[ShotgunSteven]

My bad, lol.

 

[beer]

It was a weapons platform suitable for the cold war against state-sponsored armies, not terrorists. It's seems like a redundant platform compared to the apache to me.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: KnightBreed

Originally posted by: NFS4
REPOST

Which, ironically, was also a repost.

Why would I go the politics forum to talk about airplanes/helicopters?

Dunno, maybe because it was news? Doesn't matter to me, as most us ATOTers don't visit P&N very often anyway

 

[yllus]

From what I've read about the role of the Comanche, this is not an exceptionally big loss. The Kiowa Warrior is serving the role adequately.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Originally posted by: beer
It was a weapons platform suitable for the cold war against state-sponsored armies, not terrorists. It's seems like a redundant platform compared to the apache to me.

According to rahvin, it the Comanche wasn't meant to be a weapons platform, but more of a scout. The project wasn't killed so much because the it was redundant to the Apache, but more because using unmanned vehicles are cheaper and safer than using a helicopter.

The commanche was designed to carry almost no munitions (2 bays of I think 14 hellfires, you could add wings that held more but it killed the stealth nature). This is NOT an attack helicopter, it was designed to be a scout. With UAV's we don't need it anymore. Why put a solider at risk when you can send up a $10,000 UAV. As tnitusj said these cold war weapon systems are not needed and are quickly being made irrelevant by technology. The apache we currently have is far supperior to other weapon systems in the world, continued refinement of that platform should be where any money is spent.

 

[Passions]

Damn a 20 yr project gone down the tubes. :brokenheart:

 

[StageLeft]

Apparently the best thing to come out of that $10 B were some video games

 

[SithSolo1]

Screw the Comanche, I want the Crusader back!

Sure, it looked sweet but thats about it. It's not the super chopper most people made it out to be. Now mobile artillery on the other hand, that's cool.

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