I hope they have these sitting somewhere waiting to make a comeback. I know the US airforce love their cool toys.
>>64727331??that was an US army project, not air force
>>64727342My bad. Army love their toys too, especially the flying ones
>>64727331They use some assets and developments from the program today for their Stealth Blackhawks you don't get to see.
>>64727331Comanche was cancelled because it was an overpriced piece of shit.Yet another proof that Army acquisition morons can be just as wasteful as Navy and AF fatasses.
>>64727451But fuck, doesn't she look pretty with her big tail...
The stealth recon concept is probably not very important anymore. Giving up armor and payload to sneak around and observe things when there is always a satelite overhead.
shut the fuck up you unbearable newfag
>>64727451>Comanche was cancelled because it was an overpriced piece of shit.No it was cancelled because of the peace dividend making the US army think they'd never face anything with air defenses ever again. The Comanche worked perfectly to specs and had no outstanding technical issues.
>>64727698>The Comanche worked perfectly to specs and had no outstanding technical issuesHoly fuck, you're the best comedian I've seen!
>>64727331I wish FARA had gone somewhere. I guess Apaches and Vipers are good enough for a while still.
>>64727720Drones have taken over the recon role and it looks like concepts for a rapid dragon-esque system with switchblade type munitions out of MV-75 could step on the attack helicopter’s toes pretty hard. Which is sort of a shame since the Bell offering for FARA looked very cool.
>>64727741They've been using Apaches in tandem with fixed wing drones to great effect, the helicopter basically acting as a highly mobile forward air controller in addition to it's own armament. Part of FARA was to develop an aircraft that natively has that capability instead of trying to retrofit it into aging Apaches
>>64727451>Comanche was cancelled because it was an overpriced piece of shit.No, it got cancelled because drones were becoming increasingly relevant, vastly cheaper, and essentially rendered the Commanche obsolete within the role that it was gunning for.
>>64727490Inverse Dyson sphere. Cool.
>>64727544mental omega wannabe
>>64727342But it says "Marines".
>>64730954ThisRetards think it was a full-blown attack helicopter set to be an Apache replacement, but really it was a Kiowa replacement, and died for the same reason subsequent Kiowa replacements did
>>64727331attack helicopters are becoming obsolete :( although i would love to see these just exist as they look extremely cool
>>64727544Have those ever actually worked?
>>64733164The S-300 has no kills confirmed. The Buk however has shot down a couple civilian airliners
>nab away air defences with nighthawks>bomb anti air units with raptors>send in comanches to finish the forcePlanning air operations is genuinely the most fun I've ever had in a video game.
