Bell Helicopter has a website up that I hadn't seen before...its called "Scouts Out" and its advertising the upgrades to the OH-58.
Bad news EuroCopter fans.
The US Army looks like they're just going to do an upgrade to an existing system and the competition for a new observation helicopter is going away. In a way its positively brilliant. An upgrade. No worries about a competition. Easily approved by Congress.
To be honest I'm not sure if the OH-58 will be more capable than the UH-72 but its here now and good enough, appears to be enough these days.
