hehehe huys although this aint a modeling topic but if any of you guys have any kits of the commanche well its not going to be operational hehehe

here's the link http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,112225,00.html

2 thoughts in mind:

1. They cancel it because it is costly and not good for mass production.

2. It is NOT anymore a secret program so they had to cancel it. Maybe they had another chopper in mind, cheaper and more stealthy.

Yep.




UCAVs.

Pity, all that money going to waste.... Still, despite it's huge price tag, I think this program's more deserving of funding than the F-22 (a Cold War weapon) or the V-22 (more suited to peacekeeping, but plagued with problems). Then again, there isn't really a need for ANY of these in the US military (except possibly the Osprey - but it's not living up to expectations) - they've got great airpower and helicopters already. I'm predicting that NONE of these 3 programs will come to fruiton.

This story reminds me of the MBT-70 project, a joint venture between Germany and the US to create a high-tech wondertank. Too much money got spent too fast on a problematic piece of equipment - they dropped it and replaced it with the M1 and Leopard 2 tanks, both incredibly expensive to develop. If that money had been spent on the MBT-70, the US and Germany could have had even better tanks than they do now (and that's saying a lot!). Maybe the same thing will happen here with Commanche and its "cheaper-but-not-really" replacement....

The cancellation of the Comanche now made me wanna finish my Italeri Comanche. I know it's a bad model, but I will do it in honor of the cancelled chopper.

Hi Shonnen,

I look forward to seeing the finished product.

Sure! But don't count on how good the outcome would be. Blame Italeri for that.

but i think ok nga sana i continue un commanche program since it could help out in their so called "war on terror"

oh well imagine that much money used to helping other poor nations thus preventing the rise of terrorism in those nations coz i believe poverty is also a cause for this people to result to terrorism... #:-)

Amen to that, Flex! An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure.... or something like that...

Besides, the US can't be everywhere at once, maybe some of its military budget should go to helping out its allies.... like the Philippines! #:-)

DONATE THOSE 2 PROTOTYPE COMANCHES TO SHONEN RED!!!

i still prefer the Hind and the Havoc

for me warfreak kc yang lahi ng mga Bush eh ! hehhee but what Bush Sr did back then was necessary since ol' Saddam was getting tired of his usual antics with his people...




hehee i'll help you scratchbuilt some of those parts ....maybe we could make it an in flight model hehehe #:-)