BTW, for the $8 billion spent on the Comanche, the Army could have had over 200 F/A-18's and the spare parts to keep them flying. But I suspect that they would rather have something like the A-10.
As I recall he Army considered acquiring the A-10 fleet from the USAF in the early 90s, but wanted to absorb the qualified manpower from the USAF as well, which the USAF declined to do, thus killing the proposal.
89 posted on 02/23/2004 11:47:31 AM PST by TADSLOS
(Right Wing Infidel since 1954)