Hearted Youtube comments on Ed Nash's Military Matters (@EdNashsMilitaryMatters) channel.
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The Comanche was a really good design, had excellent speed and maneuverability, decent range, good weaponry, and could do everything the Kiowa could do, but better. When the Army cancelled the program (a mistake, in my opinion), Bell/Sikorsky were left with a fully developed design for a new scout/attack helicopter. They just had to wait for the right time to market it again. And as for development lag, the development was all done decades ago, so just slap some stub wings on it, fill it with modern avionics, and you have...again...a really good scout/attack helicopter design. The armed forces would be foolish to pass on it, particularly given they've now retired the Kiowa fleet and everything else they've got is 40+ years old. Sikorsky have their new Raider and Defiant coaxial designs up and flying now, so it makes sense for Bell to bring this back to the forefront. Hope it does well for them this time.
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As a 96 year old, this brought back memories of working at SEBROs (Short Brothers) factory, in Cambridge, Seven large hangers, now defunct, and built over, repairing Stirlings. in 1943/4. These badly damaged ones, were
brought in on ," Queen Mary" vehicles, but "flyable" ones, flown in to our other base, at Bourn Airfield.
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