Why was the yeehaw copter retired?

literally too fucking old, most airframes are so worn they're unsafe, they can't lift enough munitions, fuel or people to be useful as support, or the upgrades necessary to be a relevant in attack roles, and war isn't about sending some faggot with an AR to take potshots at hadjis anymore.

Congressman in a district that make a more expansive model made sure his district got a contract. Sorta like how we still make tanks even though we have a depot of hundreds of unused rotting ones

>you will never spray down some dune coon with an m4 while flying your kiowa blasting pop country, and shotgunning pbrs

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>mfw people seethe this much

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Wrong
You can buy one and be a free man

Because we tried to replace it twice with the comanche and then the arapaho. Both programs became bloated and went overbudget.

Because the Earth is a cruel place and your lamentations amount to fuck all.
Get ready for that grindstone to crush you into dust next.

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Don't worry, modern wars against Russia/China are a thing and this has brought back the need for scout helicopters that can detect stuff deep inside enemy territory:

breakingdefense.com/2018/10/army-wants-revolutionary-scout-aircraft-for-30-million/

The Comanche was way too expensive/overdesigned for a combat scout.
The Arapaho was pure rentseeking. "Made with off the shelf parts" my ass.
Hopefully the Raider performs as well as it looks. Given that Sikorsky are quite serious about hybrid copters (Defiant), it has a decent chance of getting accepted into service.

Retards

Because the army wanted to reduce the amount of different helis they operate. Is the army hurtin for helicopters now?

K, I'm curious now. What would the US do with these choppers that their drones aren't already doing without risking pilot lives?

>Why was the yeehaw copter retired?

Because it was paid off and CEO Shlomo Goldberg of Lockheed/Sikorsky isn't going to make any money off it.

>We want stealthy scout helicopters now
I fucking hate the US sometimes

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The Comanche had relatiely short range and low speed.
The original intended role for it (ignore the whole "target painter" thing) was to slip past the front line and gank Soviet jammers and ELINT ground vehicles.
Problem is, the "low and slow" approach went out the window with high-subsonic ATGMs, who can keep up with slow flying objects (ex. Kornet-EM).

Ib4 that project went black. We know they are using tech from it in Stealth Hawk kits. Maybe the Comanche itself is alive too.

Yo I have a question. Why would the old place be called Chuck's Fuck and Suck if it was presumably still a country store at the time. Wouldn't it just be called Chuck's Feed and Seed? Or did Sneed buy a strip club and convert it to a farm and fleet?

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A stealth attack chopper is of limited use since the US isn't likely to be sending infantry anywhere that they don't already have total air supremacy.

what if they actually have to fight a real war one day?

What use would a stealth attack copter be with that in mind?

>Problem is, the "low and slow" approach went out the window with high-subsonic ATGMs, who can keep up with slow flying objects (ex. Kornet-EM).

And more importantly, tripple A.