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During the Singapore Airshow in 2004, the Pentagon pulled the plug on the U.S. Army's RAH-66 Comanche stealth reconnaissance and attack helicopter. Eight years on the Army's efforts to put in place a replacement program have failed. First it sought to acquire a replacement Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter from Bell, but the ARH-70 was cancelled, too. Today's release of the Pentagon's Fiscal 2013 budget proposal will spell out whether the Comanche follow-on’s follow-on, the Armed Aerial Scout, will now be kicked down the road, leaving the requirement unmet. [See Pentagon summary of fiscal 2013 weapon systems request here.] There is more than a tenuous link to that decision and this year’s Singapore Airshow. Boeing was going to bring its AH-6i attack helicopter to the event, but returned it to the U.S., instead, for upgrades in preparation for a fly-off this year as part of the AAS program. Meanwhile, the AH-6i program has just gotten a big boost, with the U.S. and Saudi Arabia agreeing on the terms for the first sale of the helicopter.
During the Singapore Airshow in 2004, the Pentagon pulled the plug on the U.S. Army's RAH-66 Comanche stealth reconnaissance and attack helicopter. Eight years on the Army's efforts to put in place a replacement program have failed.
First it sought to acquire a replacement Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter from Bell, but the ARH-70 was cancelled, too. Today's release of the Pentagon's Fiscal 2013 budget proposal will spell out whether the Comanche follow-on’s follow-on, the Armed Aerial Scout, will now be kicked down the road, leaving the requirement unmet. [See Pentagon summary of fiscal 2013 weapon systems request here.]
There is more than a tenuous link to that decision and this year’s Singapore Airshow. Boeing was going to bring its AH-6i attack helicopter to the event, but returned it to the U.S., instead, for upgrades in preparation for a fly-off this year as part of the AAS program.
Meanwhile, the AH-6i program has just gotten a big boost, with the U.S. and Saudi Arabia agreeing on the terms for the first sale of the helicopter.
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