This seems to be much more advanced than the Apache MK2.
Why was this scraped again?
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Ethan Thomas
A few reasons:
Cost overruns throughout development
Not that much better than the Ayypatch
PCW "peace dividend"
Unreasonable requirements foisted on late in development (Intercontinental self-deployment)
Luke Howard
Predator UAV happened, we needed RC planes to orbit dune coon huts for days on end in early 2000s
Mason Wright
>Intercontinental self-deployment
>light helicopter
>any helicopter
what the fuck
Brandon Harris
It was deafeated by hulk.nuff said
David Ward
"Ok but can it do the Airwolf thing"
-The Pentagon
Jose Harris
I've heard various things- either that the pentagon wanted it killed and made up a Bullshit requirement to do so(What they did with Crusader), or that they were retardedly optimistic. Of course, the second option wouldn't be the first stupid thing from early 2000's pentagon.
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Carter Cruz
Or it is actually in service, but secretly.
Carter Jackson
It didn't make much sense. Helicopters couldn't be made truly radar stealthy to survive fighters, and ground-based threats weren't so much about radars as about passive infrared guided missiles and autocannons. The latter became independent from radar for fire control as laser rangefinders became common.
Furthermore, the costs of this supposedly cheap (originally USD 15 million fly-away was promised) helicopter grew too high and there was no real need to add attack helicopter punch as the modernised Apache fleet was already huge.
Rarely understood fact; the Apache's much more freely movable autocannon was actually better than the RAH-66's and the AH-1's for actions over occupied cities like Baghdad and Fallujah.
Carter Sanders
god this video is so cringe
Isaac Cook
too goddamned expensive
Brody Powell
Unfortunately, not the worst one:
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Isaac Parker
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You ain't seen nothing
Sebastian Lewis
It was never an analog to the Apache, it was a replacement for the OH6 and in certain capacities the Kiowa. Trouble is, while improved sensory systems made those aircraft obsolete, they simultaneously made the whole role of gunship spotter obsolete as well. Why have a separate aircraft spotting targets by eyesight when your Apache sensors can see further and clearer than he ever could? So now instead of Gunship/spotter teams, you just have two gunships operating just as if not more effectively.
Caleb Fisher
Drones took its job.
Logan Robinson
>Cost overruns throughout development
is there ANYTHING in usa that has actually meet this tiny little deadline?
most of the shit i have seen cancelled is primarily due to the fact that it got so much overbudget and so late that a new and cheaper tech got invented
Brody Myers
Who the hell thought this was good enough to publish and not burn?
Tyler Thompson
Same people that think Tiltrotors are a good rapid insertion troop transport despite being unable to fit fucking door guns
Levi Bell
Why is everything not a drone right now?
Drone tanks, drone missile boats, drone bombers, drone gunships.
Aiden Kelly
This is the kind of stuff that gets desk drivers diamonds.