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.
"its here now and good enough"
ReplyDeleteKinda like the F-16, F-18, F-15, F-22, AV-8, and A-10, eh? Why don't you apply the "good enough" logic to the F-35?
big difference when you're talking good enough for attack or observation helicopters and fighter aircraft.
ReplyDeletebesides. you say that the F-16, 18, 15, 22, AV-8 are all dog meat against even current Russian fighters so you should be supporting this new fighter and hoping that they get it right.
unless you're one of those people that believe that current airpower philosophy is bankrupt.