Any show that says the Commanche is the future needs to be updated as it was cancled 02/25/2004 I wish it hadnt been but its dead please stop remiding me of what could have been lol
Attack Helicopters are a very bad idea whose existence in an active combat environment only persists because the Key West Agreements proscribe the Army from having armed, fixed wing, aircraft of vastly superior capabilities.
ERMP will be twice the 'scout' as the Comanche, simply because, at 10-20,000ft, the samme optical system can see twice as far.
Just as the AH-56 could have been potentially four times the tank hunter that the Apache ever will be. Because it had the speed, payload and rigid rotor systems to cover wider areas from further behind the lines and specifically Cross-FLOT to attack followon forces while they were bunched up in roadmarch.
When you realize that helicopters _never leave_ the /least/ effective (also cheapest, most numerous and impossible to 'stealth' hide from) of the trashfire threat envelopes that an aircraft can face, you recognize the inherent flaw to putting an RFLO platform into the same scenario as nearly destroyed an entire attack aviation battalion over Najaf in 2003.
please stop remiding me of what could have been lol
