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polyhedron
Senior Heliman
Location: Amite, Louisiana, USA

I can't believe it. I loved that chopper.

39 billion down the drain.

That calculates to be around $135 for every man, woman, child, infant, senior citizen, etc. etc. etc. in the USA.


--Matt
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Jagboy69
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Location: Lake Mary, Florida (20 mins East of Orlando)

your tax dollars at work my friend.. whats that TV ad about feeding hungry children for 80cents a day/??

Speaking of.. does anyone here do that??? I was thinking about how fortunate I am in my life (granted, ass busted and lots of hard work) but not everyone has those opportunities... I was wondering if it would actually help out someone...

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Yaegermeister
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Location: Livingston, MT

Cancelling the commanche project

You need to look at the big picture. They will now spend the money elsewhere where it is needed. For example, the interceptor body armor. If you were a joe in the field, what would be more important to you. The 39 billion they spent on the commanche or the million dollars they spent buying the body armor for each soldier that goes into harms way.

Don't read me wrong I liked the commanche too. Hell I have a friend that flies Blackhawks and he was looking forward to getting into that program to fly them.

Just my two cents as a soldier.

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polyhedron
Senior Heliman
Location: Amite, Louisiana, USA

I understand about the body armor, but they have ALREADY spent the 39 billion and are scrapping the program. It would have cost more to continue the program, but they just wasted 39 billion of our dollars!


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sceaduman
Heliman
Location: Houston, Texas - USA

So what is to become of all of that technology? Wonder if they will ever continue where they left off? Hell i would buy one of the prototypes....wonder if they will sell any of that stuff. I have an extra billion to throw around
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daggit
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Location: Waseca MN

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they have ALREADY spent the 39 billion and are scrapping the program


you can bet it's not ALL out the window, much tech can be used in other heli's
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daggit
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Location: Waseca MN

hopefully a lot of fine Americans got paid some really nice wages which they dumped back into the economy
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shootist
Senior Heliman
Location: New York State, East Coast US

I think that $8 billion has already been spent, not $39 billion. A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you have real money.

Sounds like Boeing is OK with the cancellation of the Commanche- it looks like the money will be diverted to the other Boeing chopper- the Apache program. Of course, if you were an individual working on Commanche, and you got laid off, you wouldn't care if 47 other people got hired for Apache

I was surprised to read that the costs got upwards of $50 million per Commanche. That's a lot.
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pipercopter
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Location: Riverside, California

It's called mission overlap. There is no doubt that the Comanche would have been a good armed helicopter. However, the missions it was tag to perform is already being accomplished by systems already in the inventory. Fighter helicopters may sound good but you still end up with weapon system that is slower than slowest WW2 piston fighter. Not good when you're going against somebody on the ground with a MANPAD that is becoming more sophisticated. In the future, I think we are looking at arm UCAVs that will do the job of recon and interdication without risking someone. The Comanche along with some other weapon systems that are currently on the R&D are leftovers from the cold war. Our enemies have changed (911) and we will need to focus our resources to defeating these new bad guys.
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wmueller10
Heliman
Location: Ft Benning Area

A shame that the billions were wasted on research/program without producing another helicopter (it was a sharp looking heli). But it's better to cut the losses now.
The face of war is changing anyways,,, it's up close and personnel with the bad guys hiding behind the civilians.
It's time for the US government to change it's strategy as well. Perhaps focusing on small unmanned aerial vehicles (90 sz helis') capable of flying right up to a bad guy and firing a single bullet instead of a hail of machine gun fire.
Twenty years from now, they'll have UAV combat jets/heli's anyways, might as well invest some of those billions in the future military arsenal.
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