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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."
Northern Pakistan. Turn on CNN!!!!
These looked like a sweet weapons platform. They could easily take out terrorists on camels from miles and miles away no problem.
our new killing machines will be named to insult the ragheads - I propose a new bomber named the Pork Chop Express; or maybe the Zionist Avenger.
In Soviet Russia, Weapons counter the Helicopter!!
I have no regrets, this is the only path.
My whole life has been "UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS"
isn't Boeing a British company
Boeing is a French company.
A billion dollars wasted may seem like a lot to you, Mr. La-tee-dah Slashdot editor, but I'll have you know that we lose a lot more money...uhh...teaching kids about masturbation and God hating and the "theory" of evolution. So stick that in your pipe and smoke it! Bush in '04!
Lick my feet, nigga!
Fuck 'em, say I.
HAHAHAHA
that's what they were designed for, my man.