[Spktyr]

From the article: "Other helicopter makers wanted a piece of that interim action. To select the most worthy candidate, the Army mandated a fly-off at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California. “All a bunch of junk,” Folse says of the rival lineup. Boeing Vertol offered its heavy-lifting Chinook, and Sikorsky brought a twin-engine SH-3 Sea King. “Can you imagine aircraft that large as an attack helicopter?” Folse laughs."

Yes, actually, we can - because the Russians came to an entirely different conclusion that's worked out just about as well in reality:

[JohnyBoy]

>Yes, actually, we can - because the Russians came to an entirely different conclusion that’s worked out just about as well in reality:

I don’t know much about attack choppers, but after looking at the failures of the Apaches in Iraq didn’t the Russians have a better solution with their attack choppers?

[minnesota_bound]

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