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US Army Scraps Comanche Helicopter
swordboy writes "The US Army just scrapped the Comanche helicopter program - a joint venture with Boeing and United Technologies. After 20 years and billions of taxpayer dollars, it never produced an operational helicopter. Open-source helicopter, anyone?" The article notes: "The Comanche is designed to receive and process intelligence from drones and surveillance aircraft and pass it to ground units. The Army was directed in 2002 to focus its research on producing a reconnaissance helicopter rather than one that can attack as well as scout. The helicopter was intended to counter Soviet weapons."
Oh DEAR GOD NO! Does this mean I have to scrap playing Comanche 4?? I just got into the last Mission set. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!
The Pentagon probably determined a catastrophic weather change and these wouldn't work under the new climate...
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
... I was kinda partial to it, ever since LHX came out for MSDOS back in like 1990 or so..
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Who is going to break the news to Novalogic?
If it was open source the Russians would have just looked at the code and found out how to counter it. Doesn't sound like a very good military plan to me.
yeah, it was stupid piece of flying metal. I kept on crashing and crashing and crashing... in that game.
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I can't believe your still running Commanche! I'm running Apache! seriously, 20 years and billions of dollars without a working product. Its tough stuff, but with that type of input and no working output, all I can say is ouch and scrap it.
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Haliburton must have offered to do it for twice the price.
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I bet ol Paul and Paul Sr. are gonna be pissed....look for a fight in a episode next seasn
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Your new to american politics, aren't you?
Don't waste time... procrastinate now!
Are you kidding me!? With the combined power of the Comanche and the Missile Defense System we would be invincible!
Bad movie reference over... move along.
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They could ask that farmer in Vietnam for help.
At least he would be interested in buying the prototype.
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That would have to be the one with sub-contractor in every Congressional district.
Your new to american politics, aren't you?
You're new to spelling, aren't you?
Yay!
This means that GUI for our-favorite-web-browser-that's-also-named-after a-helicopter won't have to change it's name suddenly and unexpectedly like all those other open source programs that had nothing to do with whatever else it was that had the same name first.
Uh. Yeah. Good news, that.
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True. Unfortunately, in the United States, you don't scrap weapons.
Apache HTTPd: "Prefered web server of the 19th centaury."
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It really isn't hard at all. All the pilot does is say "Stealth mode, on!" and the helicopter both becomes completely silent and emits nor reflects any EM radiation. Not only that, the pilot can completely see through all walls via high-power high-resolution IR scopes. The main, although top secret, reason the military builds these helicopters is to spy on sorority houses during rush week.
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That's all I want to know.
I've heard mech guys talk too, and they MUCH prefer Timberwolves to the puny Bradley.
20 years, no working product? Think about that. That's 1984. That's before web pages, before the internet, before Microsoft "took over the world". That's Commodore 64, Atari and Apple days.
Wow, that's almost like wasting my entire life up until this point. What kind of fool would make a mistake like that?
Anyway, I'm going back to reading Slashdot, watching Star Wars, and eating pringles in my darkened basement bedroom until it's time to play some D&D. Later guys.
--Dan
we like to keep our pilots alive...
in this age of communication i'm just not getting through
The 20 year-old Soviet weapons must be damned good!
So when will the parts and other goodies be available on Ebay? We already had Blue Angels jet on it, so why not this thing? Maybe the Army could get a little cash back for some of the equipment that was needed to build it?
:-)
Cheers.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Exactly! When George Bush needed to assassinate Saddam Hussein's waiter, the B-2 was the go to weapon of choice.
Future projects like this can be out sourced to India so when it gets canceled, it would've wasted millions of tax payer dollars instead of billions.
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I see that the anti-gravity flying death ray project is receiving funding at the expected level then.
Yeah but somehow I don't think naming a helicopter the AH-70 Jew will go over very well.
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Since American Chopper did a "theme bike" based on the Commanche, the American public got their money's worth. :-)
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Whenever my father would hear that type of argument, he'd say
At this point AIPAC probably employs more lobbyists than the total surviving population of the American Indian genocide.
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you can download it here :-
http://www.comanche.org/downloads
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