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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!!!
... 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.
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.
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!
That would have to be the one with sub-contractor in every Congressional district.
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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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.
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!
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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