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10-20-2009, 11:48 AM
zuludelta
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Interesting points, Zulu. I remember reading in Tom Clancy's "Marine" non fiction book that an Iraqi POW from Desert Storm said in regards to the Whiskey Cobra, "We saw many planes, but it was the skinny bird we feared the most." As a tank killer, it seems that the A-10 is a far better platform than the Apache, IMHO. I thought that the now-cancelled Commanche was supposed to alleviate some of the problems associated with speed and fuel, but I guess that's a moot point. It sounds like what's needed is something akin to the Osprey, but larger, with more cargo capacity.
What really killed the Comanche project was the upgrades to the AH-64D Longbow platform. By 2002, the incremental upgrades to the AH-64D's avionics systems made it the equivalent of the Comanche in terms of its sensory and navigational array. By that point, the Comanche just started looking like a terribly expensive piece of hardware geared towards a niche application (I remember when word of the Comanche first got out... a lot of observers remarked that "stealth helicopter" was a bit of an oxymoron).
The thing about the modern attack helicopter is that the push and pull between survivability and fuel economy are exaggerated to a much higher degree than in fixed wing attack aircraft. By the very nature of the missions they're sent on, attack helicopters will be more exposed to ground-based small arms fire and man-portable rocketry than their fixed-wing counterparts like the AC-130U or the A-10 Thunderbolt, which operate at higher altitudes. The simple solution, of course, is to pile on the armour. But more armour = heavier aircraft = poorer fuel economy (and maybe a smaller weapons payload). When the attack helicopter is used properly though (that is, when its operational radius and small arms vulnerabilites are properly taken into account), this shouldn't be a big problem. But
as recent as 2003
, there were unconfirmed reports of AH-64Ds being brought down with small arms fire (AK-47s, to be specific).
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