US Army Scraps Comanche Helicopter

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday February 23, 2004 @10:35AM from the vaporware dept.

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."

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Duke Nukem Forever by maliabu · 2004-02-23 10:44 · Score: 0, Offtopic

bigger scale.
Stupid pentagon procurement process... by vkg · 2004-02-23 10:44 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Stupidly large amounts of money for things which never actually work. Wasteful corporate welfare!

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