"Bumpy Ride Ahead for Military's Future Helicopter Program" Topic
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Tango01 | 05 Jun 2014 10:59 p.m. PST |
"The Pentagon's plan to acquire a new family of helicopters once again is up in the air. The military intends to continue to fund rotary-wing research and testing programs, officials said, but it cannot yet predict if or when it will have funds to buy new aircraft to replace the current fleet. Like every other modernization program in the Defense Department, new helicopters have to compete for funding within a pool of shrinking dollars. Officials said the military services are having to trade off new weapon systems to fund their payroll. "The budget environment is very difficult," said Jose M. Gonzalez, deputy director of land warfare, munitions and tactical warfare systems at the Defense Department
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Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
Chuckaroobob | 06 Jun 2014 8:21 a.m. PST |
Well, that looks weird. They took so long with the Osprey makes you wonder how much development these things need. |
Augustus | 06 Jun 2014 8:25 a.m. PST |
THAT design won't ever see a tarmac. No one funds something that looks like a "goony bird". |
Lion in the Stars | 06 Jun 2014 11:42 a.m. PST |
It kinda depends on which bird you're looking at. The Sikorsky-Boeing coaxial-rotor job with a pusher prop on the back is dang near ready to fly. link I suspect that the V280 Valor Tiltrotor is a non-starter, the Army hasn't been interested in tiltrotors, probably because the USAF is going to steal them and then put them in the Boneyard (like they did with the C27Js). After all, a tilt-rotor is a fixed-wing, and the US Army isn't supposed to be flying fixed wings! |
SouthernPhantom | 11 Jun 2014 12:03 p.m. PST |
Compound helos are possible, maybe as an attack/recce bird like a cross between the KW and the old Cobras. That said, the money just isn't there anymore. Good luck. |
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