Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "The Only Blackhawk Attack Helicopter Ever Built - S-67" video.

@atomicskull6405 the USAF did not cancel it. Lyndon Johnson having ties to Bell probably did a lot more to get it canceled than the USAF, which had already agreed to not influence rotary wing purchases. Plus the courts determined that there was no overlap of capabilities between the A-10 and the Cheyenne.
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@WillCarter1976 I don't know how to even start. Literally everything you said is incorrect. Strategic bombing has given way to precision strikes. Air power is absolute murder on the modern field. What about that engagement a couple years ago in which like 30-40 special operations in Syria killed 80 Russian mercenaries and 200 Syrian fighters or whatever without suffering a single fatality simply because they had air support? This was also seen in the last century, for example the Rhodesians with very few people killed 2000 insurgents simply because they had a bird in the air dishing it out. In 1991 Desert Storm was decided by air power. The Navy's power projection comes from the aircraft carrier. How is the air force fighting irrelevance when the main fighting power of the Navy is aircraft? Cruise missiles alone can't do the job.
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@WillCarter1976 "Why wait till an enemy strike gets near coastline when a carrier launched sortie can intercept" - This is beyond nonsensical. That's like keeping your entire team on the opponent's side of the field assuming nothing gets through. Not to mention that it would essentially open up an avenue through the arctic. The Navy can handle national defense, as long as the Canadian Air Force defends the northern border. "The fact the the Air Force is the most over-educated and underutilized" - Underutilized, despite of the fact that air power has been critical in the GWOT.
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@J the morale argument is absolute hogwash because weapons that target morale just send insurgents running to their dirt bikes and go back to their normal lifes until they decide to attack next week. You target their morale, they come back. Target their bodies, and they'll be a red smear on the ground. Forget morale.
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@Nightdiver20 the issue is that stopping communism by propping up an unpopular puppet head of state didn't work, and the destruction caused by the war turned many people against foreign occupation.
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@johnthepreceptor3575 If you have nothing to say simply don't post.
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No. This was settled back then and the USAF chief of staff agreed to not meddle with rotary wing purchases.
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@johnthepreceptor3575 You didn't say anything. Having no home bases is a bad idea and the USAF is always on call for the GWOT.
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