On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 23:34:46 +0000, ess (phil
hunt) wrote:

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 17:26:04 -0500, Paul F Austin wrote:

"robert arndt" wrote

Too bad, only wish it would have been the V-22 or F-22 programs.

This is the first big lessons learned to come out of Iraq War-2. Between the
Apaches getting put out of action by massed gunfire and the demonstrated
advantages of UAVs, the Army decided that Comanche was last-war's weapon.

That's my take on it too.


And they wasted a ton of money on it. I don't mind that the program
was canceled-- if they had a good reason to.

But consider this-- the LHX program first got started back in 1983--
before I was out of high school! Total up all the starts and stops,
half done systems, etc, and you probably have enough wasted money to
put helicopter engines on the New Jersey and get a REAL big CAS
platform.
Seriously, I think we long ago passed th epoint where delays in
getting actual hardware in service for hands on looks cost more than
the money to be saved by endless rounds of redesign.