RAH-66 Comanche: The F-35 of Helicopters
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- Опубликовано: 9 янв 2022
- The U.S. has long led the world in stealth technologies, and for a time, it looked as though America's love for all things low-observable would extend all the way into rotorcraft like the RAH-66 Comanche attack helicopter
The Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche is US Army's stealth armed reconnaissance and attack helicopter designed for the United States Army. Following decades of development, the RAH-66 program was canceled in 2004 before mass production began, by which point nearly US$7 billion had been spent on the program.
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I was in the Army as an AH-1F crew chief when this started development. I remember thinking " maybe if I reenlisted I could transfer over to crewing it instead. LOL It would have been a long wait.
Mr Hess, you clearly have SENSE. But good soldiers like YOU don't get to make sane military decisions - just die for the idiots in the Pentagon's whims and fancies...God keep you safe friend.....TJ the DJ
@@tonywilliams8426 what the fuck
@@jelleposthuma8786 he's right though.
These young soldiers die horrible deaths so that the millitary industrial complex and the greedy old politicians can earn more money, to buy their 10th yacht
@@tonywilliams8426 haha. Harsh but fair!
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This will FOREVER be the coolest helicopter EVER created
No not the coolest
That's reserved for the ah56 Lockheed
Not really created. Same with a "mouse" tank there were 2 created prototypes, but prototypes aren't the real thing.
Is pretty, but is garbage as a stealth helicopter.
Beyond spectacular
And the most pointless
I had the privilege of having one of the test pilots as a customer where I worked back then. It was awesome seeing that amazing chopper flying overhead. The sound it made was unreal, the audio doesn’t even come close to doing it justice. This was an awesome program that should have been continued.
If you're already $7bil in, why not go the extra mile to get the finished product? 🤓 Most of the system bugs could have been fixed with today's higher tech and I'm pretty sure the composite materials issues would also have been worked out with today's modern tech too 🤔 I can't help but think some senior officers were nervous that the Comanche would rival the Apache which was never the point of producing them at all
@@michaelstanfield3853 agreed. Once they added those wing stubs, the project could’ve been seen as a rival to the Apache. Which if we’re being honest the Apache is an expensive & high maintenance system that is very profitable for its manufacturers.
@@michaelstanfield3853 we need to budget to buy crack pipes for Biden supporters and oh yeah, shut down domestic drilling to buy Russian oil, even after they started a war. Yep.
@@michaelstanfield3853 Look into something called the "sunk cost fallacy"
My dad worked on the software for the HUD in the pilot's helmets!
Whom of us didn't play Comanche Gold or Comanche 4 in the late 1990s? XD
Holding the box of Comanche 3 right now with a gleam of nostalgia in my eyes.
Huh .....I was video game age in the military in the late 90s at 17 and never heard of it
@@jacobishii6121 too bad, Comanche Gold was a real great game!
Or cammanche vs ka52 enemy engaged
Looks just like it no lie
7 billion dollars - 2 helicopters.... government in a nutshell
That is absurd. But I would at least hope they learned a lot in R&D and apply it to future weapons. But I doubt it. 🤦♂️
The military learned how to more effectively WASTE TAXPAYERS MONEY!
Worked on this slick's electronics (specifically the HIDSS which this video doesn't really touch on) at Kaiser Aerospace & Electronics in San Jose. You have to remember that when the spec was originally laid out, UCAVs were an absolute pipe dream. The original spec wasn't unreasonable. However, over time, it succumbed to creeping featurism. The business about making it capable of ferrying itself across the Atlantic is a perfect example, as it immediately caused the extant prototypes to be significantly overweight, and of course nobody wanted their pet project part of it to be sliced off to save weight. Similarly, the addition of the external stub wings fucked its stealth but goodness, didn't it need MORE ARMAMENT?! No, it was originally meant to be a stealth scout. It wasn't meant to be an attack helicopter so there was no point in arming it like one. Having said all of that, the RAH-66 prototypes ended up being fantastic flying technology testbeds for a variety of modern weapons and avionics systems which at the time were considered borderline science fiction. More and more Wunderwaffen concept technologies got piled onto it (the airframe's ability to isolate and route around damage, for example, was just patently ridiculous), raising the overall program cost, and then as the Army started to reduce the quantity it wanted to purchase the cost-per-unit soared up to simply outrageous numbers (Go figure, if you slash the quantity of units on order for a program by half, you've just doubled your development cost-per-unit). We learned a great deal from it which this documentary barely hints at (i.e., the stealthed Blackhawks and the ability to do targeting handoffs with missiles launched by other vehicles, but also the KA&E HIDSS system is the progenitor for most modern helmet-mounted HUDs including the Gen. III F-35 helmet). So if you look at it that way, the money wasn't really 'wasted.'
This is probably the most cohesive and informative comment on this shit show of video comments.
@@FlyboyHelosim agree was about to post the same. It’s truly amazing what we can learn from others at a moments notice anywhere we live. Incredible comment. Just learned so much. Thank you
The acquisition teams in our Military are FOOLs, constantly changing requirements and driving up costs. In the real world spending 20+ Billion for 2 prototypes could never occur. What a waste of taxpayer money.
Best looking heli ever made, shame it never made production
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Ehh it might have.
The "McBell" No tor LHX competitor I flew was better looking and better performing.
@@ssnydess6787 and against freedom and Justice if clueless about what protected freedom and Justice Anti freedom and Justice and truth . Stand for nothing whine about guy kneeling clueless you stand for lie down
@@thehopeforunderstanding9263
The fuck are you on about? Lmfao
When I saw this helicopter for the first time my mouth dropped. Then while running along the flight line I got used to them and others flying in and out. My favorite memory was a 3 Snooks coming up behind me. I had my headphones on and it flew right over. I think the pilot knew. When you see these helicopters in action you feel glad they are on our side. During desert storm the skies were filled with every kind of helo.
It was an amazing testbed aircraft, pioneering many other technologies from the sound of it. The Commanche having all of its stealth & other features made it super cool, and now many of its elements are being put into newly developed upcoming aircraft.
@ Kevin Westrom
Unfortunately it sounds and looks like most ill conceived defence programs, like DDG 1000 and the Littoral combat ships. With drones that are unmanned,who needs a manned stealth helicopter? Seriously 😐
@@ricky1231, an unemployed helicopter pilot? 😁
@@leeeastwood6368
Lol nice one 😂😂🤣🤣
@@leeeastwood6368 In the future they predict that most military aircraft will be unmanned. Rather than being flown by vulnerable pilots or dodgy AI they'll be looking for experts at video game flight sims to pilot them.
@@white-dragon4424 so you're telling me we going to see evolution of Modern Warfare with Mihaly's AI movement and somehow the UAVs will turn against our will? And we human will never fly again?
Damn! Airwolf got an upgrade!
For those of you that ever saw that TV show long ago.
I was a crew chief at Sikorsky Aircraft on all versions of the Blackhawk Helicopters. I worked there for forty-three years. 1979-2023.
Whats your email? Can I contact you? I have questions
One of the most beautiful flying things ever created. So so sad they didn't make it.
yeah in 2004 someone gave me italery mokit of it thought it was fully operational
but turns out it scrapped
the model probably thrown out by my old man, too bad i got 3d printer to repair
at least i still able to see it in ARMA 3 as blackfoot
In Hindsight, even though it's an amazing helicopter, drones can do a better a job with the fraction of the cost and no loss of human life if shot down.
theres a game for the ps2 based off this helicopter called project phoenix or something like that
I have one.
I love it.
People need to remember that "at the end of the day" the key specification for any weapons system is "OPERATING COSTS", that is why the F-14 Tomcat is a museum piece today despite it superior performance stats. Operating costs killed so many advanced programs, think F-14, think this helicopter, think the Zumwalt destroyer, think the B58 Hustler.
I'll make it simpler than that...Look at how vehicle's are built these days...
You basically have to take the vehicle to a dealership to get it repaired because they're the only ones that can repair it because of their designs...
You're wrong. The F-22 is the most expensive vehicle to run in human history yet it's still used and will still be used for YEARS to come. The F-14 was sold to Iran due to it being inferior.
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@@WardenOfTerra lol that is totally nonsense and completely inaccurate
@@lawtongore7053 well Zumwalt wasn’t a good idea
It is a gorgeous looking helicopter
I was fortunate enough to see one of the prototypes (I think #2) being worked on when I started at Sikorsky Aircraft in the late 90s. Very cool!
Is it me or are some of these helicopters or the F-22 raptor just look to futuristic for their time and would be a thing in like 2030 or something
The YF-23 looks even more futuristic
welcome to U.S R&D
wait until they announce the new gen 6 fighters in a decade or 2. They probably wont even run off jet fuel.
Yeah the like B2 Spirit design was invented way back in the 1950s just with propellers. Military Designers are always 30-50 yrs ahead of time
I think it's because sci-fi and action movies became very popular during the '80s, in part due to the success of Star Wars (itself a sort of nostalgia operation, inspired by 1950s Saturday matinees and the idea of "WW2 in space"), in part because of the rearmament policies of the Reagan administration, which spurred a lot of "futuristic" R&D, like the F-117 and the SDI program.
In the eyes of people currently their 30s-50s, this parallel between weapon development and sci-fi action/adventure means that "futuristic" is what was "futuristic" during the 1980s, before the budget cuts of the early 90s.
At least, that's my opinion.
One of them is sitting in the Army Aviation Museum on Ft. Rucker, Alabama. I've seen it many times and have even touched it. It's pretty cool to see it in person.
Wish I could see it in person...
I think it’s funny how they’re comparing the Comanche to the F-35 as if it were a good thing. The F-35 is a failure, and also proof that the United States government is an absolute failure as well…
@@livelyupmyself1 that's because this shit is all theatre and it's was just another way that the military industrial complex made billions of dollars developing and building test craft that in most cases get turned down due to cost overruns that they already knew was going to occur...
Just look at the General's that retire, most of them end up on the boards of these military contracting firms making millions of dollars a year, while the average enlisted person will never get close to making that kind of money ever during their life times...
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@@lawtongore7053 RUclips comments is definitely the place to groan about military spending.
It’s a cool helicopter. That’s supposed to be the takeaway.
the most beautiful chopper ever.
The coolest looking helicopter ever
I worked in the engineering department at Kaiser Fluid Technologies in Charlotte NC and had the privilege to help design the landing gear actuators for the Comanche. I did the computer modeling on them. Pretty slick design. Both had pneumatic blow down to lower the landing gear in case of hydraulic failure. I was upset to hear the program was cancelled. We all spent a lot of time on that project
Dude have Elon fund you guys again and make a movie. Imagine the "old guys" getting back to the drawing board and redesigning the Rah! Faster, better, and stronger! Deployable killer drones from the RAH pods!
The Comanche was the most badass, sleek and modern helicopter ever and it was huge shame that after twenty-two years and so many billions of dollars spent in development, it was cancelled. What a waste.
Is rebourneblike Bell Invictus
This makes me sing "Helikopter Helikopter"
I wish this went into major production and active service. This thing looks so sick
This is pretty much the corvette of helicopters
They needed a Porsche !
Corvette is affordable this is more like a Lamborghini with its angles 🤣
Comanche was a text book case of scope creep. The LHX (Light Helicopter Experimental) was meant as a single pilot replacement for the Kiowa A&C models used as Cobra scouts.
The complexity and cost sky rocketed as time went in until it dwarfed the Apache.
It was a great concept but just ran away from them.
Wow it's cool seeing this. My step father worked on this project many years ago with Sikorski when I was a kid. So I had a poster of an early design of the Comanche hanging on my wall thinking this thing would some day take the reigns of the Apache. 👍
Omg I remember playing Comanche 3 back in the day .
I remember the LHX program, there was even a game for the copter. This and original black hawk (not UH-60) are really the predecessors for the new helicopter they are working on... Drop off the RAM and this would have still be an awesome scout chopper.
At the end of the day, while needed for the cold war there was no useful operational criteria for the RAH-66 by the mid/late 90's. Worked at Westinghouse (now Northrup/Grumman) on the electronics. Unfortunately as electronics tech evolved in the 90's, there were some proposed upgrades for the RAH-66 but it woulda required ALOT of redesign for the avionics. Although a fantastic looking helicopter that performed very well, the need/requirements went away and it was ultimately a money/time pit.
We gave 80 billon dollars to Ukraine, we have money to bring back this cool looking chopper! Imagine an updated RAH-66 that can launch and control drones, and can you imagine the sound reduction on that bird?
@@thegoober8797100 now
Beautiful machine! and game was epic(especially water reflections)
Still better looking than the current suggestions
The F35 is still my favorite, being that I worked for Northrop Grumman and one of my projects while in Utah. I gotta say though, that’s one sexy helicopter.
What sleek looking and cool helicopter! Reminds of something from the movie Blue Thunder or the TV show Air Wolf. Too bad it didn't work out. It would have been a deadly machine for sure.
It was probably not that it did not work the cold war ended. And there is a possibility that the CIA and other groups have fleets of them.
As a Comanche I'd love something apart of the US arsenal with the same name. Comanche fought hard and I'd love to see something that bears the name. Stealth or a front facing beast the Comanche deserves it's time in the fight
this tickled my Air Wolf fancy growing up in the 80s was amazing.
It takes a really special kind of crazy to fly a helicopter backwards at speed and to ark up into a backwards Climb. That would be hell of a carnival ride. I used to play the game Comanche back in the 90's and even the game was like really flying this thing. Yes we spent a lot of money on this for only 2 aircraft is way high, but as a Taxpayer, my only disappointment not actually having this thing go active. Iraq and Afghanistan would have been a lot different I'm sure with this virtually unbeatable Helo. I wouldn't mind paying taxes to have this in today's Army, we could have used it in Gulf 1 and Samalia. what a nice airship!
You need to be drug tested.
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@@thehopeforunderstanding9263 Atleast know the difference between too and to before commenting whatever that is
@@eddie1683 and balls balls to run mouth what worms
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Helicopter version of the F-117
Wot a cool looking helicopter awesome
i played the comanche game back then. loved it. and that helicopter still looks super sick
I had a Comanche game/simulator program on my PC that was pretty cool. I would have liked to see this come to fruition.
Sikorsky's Raider X seemingly is taking this job over nicely if it beats out the Bell 360
I prefer tilt rotors as they are the future until we can figure out how to overcome a helicopters blade stall.
The V-22 owns all for VTOL. $$$ aside, but it is new.
The coolest Helicopter ever :) I still play Comanche 4 its fun.
Excellent work on this piece....Excellent
Those flat angles mean that it's not so much the F35 of helicopters, but the old F-117 of helicopters. Computers doing a lot of tweaking in flight to make it fly right and the like because not very aerodynamic, and still larger than needed radar signature sections. It was likely cancelled due to not offering enough where it mattered. The same types of tech are being advanced elsewhere, and maybe they'll return again to stealth helicopters when it's more viable.
Brings memories of playing Comanche Gold from Novalogic back in the days. Best times of my life. Terrible they cancelled it because it was an awesome helo.
Amen to that Griffin 2-6...
If you just think of it... we flew that thing in a game on a 486 way before the real thing took off for the first time. Didn't know that back then and I was shocked when I heard the project was cancelled.
@@CakePrincessCelestia - I know right ! I have more hours in the Comanche then any of their test pilots. Lol
One of the best games I have ever played …several people dogfighting it out in Melee the green room it was so much fun.
The Commanche was a reboot of the design specs for the AH-54 Cheyenne Attack Helicopter they're pretty similar and they were really manueverable in relation to the other helicopters of the time as well...
Comanche Gold still works on modern PCs with a modified EXE file.
this helicopter is by far the best of the best in the military today. It is my fav air craft along with the a10 warthog EVER@@@@
That Radar Absorbing Composite Material is called melanin.
Wait, the Hulk fought against this guys ;) and he just spitted out a hellfire missile at them too
They released a combat sim based on this helo and it was awesome! One of the bonus content packages was a set of missions designed by an army attack helo pilot so that was fun. The real fun though was the online pvp option. My room mate was a big CS player and if i played against him on our lan i was a meat target. But in this game he had no chance lol
Go and look at the first modern era Hulk movie...
I think that they may have used a CGI model for the helicopters used in the chase scene?? Oh, and the sounds that they used were probably pretty close to realistic enough for me lol...
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@The hope For understanding I'm sorry, I don't mean to be rude or anything, but... what?
I'm sorry but I don't know if I agree or disagree with you, whether I should be offended or not, or even what prompted the post in the first place. I mean, I know what each of those words are, and what they mean, and I can't blame the lack of clarity on your spelling because at 1st glance I didn't notice any typos... but those words in that particular arrangement, I've no idea what they mean. I've no context to work with here. Hell, I'm not even sure you're addressing me at all.
But, and I ask with all due respect...what?
@@Damocles54 I am asking if so we the people then what protects freedom and Justice ? How are you protecting freedom and Justice if don't know what protects freedom and Justice .
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This was a lethal chopper, versatile also
Fascinating video, thank you.
I member seeing this in the hulk movie
Go forward, America! Long live the Nato! Long live freedom! Down with all dictatorships and terrorists all around the world! Best wishes from Germany!
These things were cool in that game "Command & Conquer: Generals".
This thing looks amazing
I don't see how you can infer that it was "a poorly managed defense program" when the evidence you presented in the video chiefly faulted external factors such as changing requirements and declining operational needs. Logical fallacies: "Hasty Generalization" and "Causal Fallacy".
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@@bBersZ Google/RUclips translate not working for me. What language? It looks like Latin. Not Spanish, French or Italian. Maybe Romanian? Porto gasi? (Brazilian Portuguese). I'm stumped...
@@bBersZ Latin dissertation on logic?
I think he is speaking portugese
@@vyros.3234 nope! It is not portuguese for sure as I am a native speaker and I can’t understand all the words. Maybe Latin
When I was in air defense in the army I always thought it was weird we were trained to identify the Comamche
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@@thehopeforunderstanding9263 esl? Because damn that's painful to read.
I really enjoyed the video games when I was a child. Always wondered what happened to this beautiful and slick machine...
I used to play the Comanche video game back in the late 90s and early 2000s. It was the first game I played with other people, over dialup.
Kinda bummed when I heard it was cancelled.
This Helicopter looks like an upgraded and more advanced "Blue Thunder" from the 1983 movie. Although totally made up, one of the coolest features of that helicopter was "Whisper Mode".
AirWolf
Go look at the early 2000's movie The Hulk, it has what looks like the Commanche helicopter attacking the Hulk in a scene and it has that whispering sound that you're talking about lol...
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@@thehopeforunderstanding9263 learn how to spell and quit commenting this on everyone’s comments
The military industrial complex in action... 20 years and billions of dollars of pork barrel, then cancel the project. Imagine if we had spent those billions on something that actually mattered.
best helicopter ever !!
It looks very, very cool
The Army is way better than any other branch at dumping tons of money into development competitions only to not pick anything. Honestly it's their bread and butter. Something they win at vs. the other branches hand over fist. The only silver lining is the lessons learned and technology developed still exists. It's just rolled over in tiny bits to other things.
"Commanche Here"
Command and Conquer Generals Anybody?
Me I know, it's strange how in the game the United States Army still uses this helipocter until Rise of the Reds but in reality it never got much praise in the military.
Notice the Comanches tail rotor blade is well protected More safety than many helicopters
Quieter too.
I loved what Tom Clancy did with the RAH-66. I would loved to see a naval version being flown from ballistic submarines
So this is what the RF-1 Akula from GTA Online was based off of.
Went threw the comment section looking for a comment on gta and i finally found one lol
Looks more like the stealth annihilator
How could they cancel such a prestigious project? Hopefully the development of this project was not in vain, for upcoming helicopter designs.
Go look at the Sikorsky website and you'll see that that design was and is still being used to some degree for the next generation of helicopters....
In Hindsight, even though it's an amazing helicopter, drones can do a better a job with the fraction of the cost and no loss of human life if shot down.
I would call it the F22 of helicopters, it was SO far ahead of its time.
Even tho it was cancelled, it gave us the game 'LHX Attack Chopper' for my old DOS computer way back in the day. It was worth it just for that alone :)
Don't worry guys you can still see the Commanche gunship.......
Just in a game Called Command & Conquer Generals
yes
All helicopters should be armed. The UH-60 need rockets and missiles and shit. It’s a military helicopter
That would be the Navy's Romeo model. It can carry air to surface & air to air missiles, torpedoes, etc.
They do... It's called the MH-60 and it's used primarily by the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment and used specifically for Special Classified Operations that the military considers of high value targets...
There's the Armed Black Hawk.
Even a decade later Sikorsky folks were very very bitter about this being canceled. It was very advanced, they had just gotten awarded for being the best manage helo program in Army history, and the first 5 production craft were being assembled. Then congress canceled it, and started a new program, to develop a new helicopter to do the same job.
This is a bad ass helicopter and we should have kept developing it 😤
And America keeps pissing away money down that bottomless rabbit hole.
Take a look at what we spend each year to cover the costs of the illegal immigrant deluge and you'll laugh...
@@fretsward2225 Now now...that's the new Democrat voting base your pointing to. 👉 👍😱
If you got it. Spend it.
Way ahead of it’s time and too expensive like the AH-56 Cheyenne
They should stop giving attack helicopters designations that end with a 6... those don't seem to be exactly the lucky numbers :D
They need to bring this Helicopter back for the Trials today !!!
Over time the technology will go down in price, sadly the RAH-66 was so close to completion but canceled off due to other weapon systems claiming the funding.
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As cool as this would've been, I'm so glad they didn't sink the massive $$$ into developing a fleet of them. Especially since unmanned drones can probably perform all or most of the same functions at much lower equipment cost and without risking lives.
Unmanned drones are fine for dealing with certain targets but there are times that helicopters are needed.
I guess I understand the fallacy of sunken costs, but after 7 billion dollars, I’d like to have something to show for it. As a taxpayer, that is.
@@SubSonicGorilla
It is an absolute given that some projects are going to fail or changes in the world mean it is no longer needed.
The 7 billion put into that project is nothing compared to the trillions spent on the welfare state.
@@bighands69 . . and we have nothing to show for either of them. Point taken.
This was the one or a similar one! Had a similar shape, was unusually quite for a helicopter!
Cheers
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The contractors surprisingly did a good job. The DoD kept slapping on additional, irrational requirements, though.
7 billion and 22 years for nothing.
Still a bargain compared to spending $328+ billion every year American taxpayers are forced to fork over to cover the costs for millions of illegal immigrants...
@@fretsward2225 aircraft carrier a year?
@@SiliconDrifter We could buy 50 carriers a year if we didn't fund the illegal invasion...
not true... the game where awesome for that time . So we have that at least out of it. And no, i do not talk about the one from last year ^^
I totally rocked it on NovaLogic! Blasting tanks with Hellfires like a boss from behind a hill! 😀
Scout Helicopter is a sexy classic though. I want one.
Novalogic Comanche 3 my favourite military sim ever as well as F22 Raptor.
There was an excellent game called Commanche 4 that featured this bird. Awesome game.
The sound of that Comanche is ungodly!
The tech that went in was groundbreaking...stronger powerplants and better rotors were probably next. But this bird was a beast in the making. Stealth isn't the solution...locking rotors and powerplants that double as jet power would will make this unbeatable. Imagine a Comanche that in flight can lock and consolidate rotors into a wing transfer power to jet propulsion and scream to battlefields with speed and maneuverability then retransotiom to rotor power to control battlefield operations. It's not impossible it just remains under deveoped.
Coolest looking chopper ever made
Always liked the looks of that 'copter.
There are more of them than that I promise I saw a demo at Rucker in 91. And saw quiet a few more in other locations.
I had the honor of working on the engine control system design for the aircraft. I was disappointed when the program was cancelled.
Super máquina 👏😃😃😄
OGs like me and my pop loved playing the games after its namesake. Fun game and really made u think this was the future of helicopters over the apache cuz of stealth and speed/manuverability. Im glad they at least took some of the tech into new platforms but i will always wonder what if
3:35 I really need to get my LCD screens upgraded to liquid crystal displays. I bet they are way much better!
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Well at the time they were progressing from CRT monitors so it was a big leap.
These need to be built today
Nice to see that footage from mine and others' videos was used without permission or credit. Also, the Comanche was actually the F-22 of helicopters.
I was at this Demo/unveiling in FL back in the 90s it was incredibly quiet