2 point about the AH-56:
The AH-56 should have a way to directly control the tail thruster power. Several flight demonstrations of the AH-56 included putting the aircraft into a stationary hover, and then using just the tail thruster to move forward and, then backward by reversing the thruster. It is even noted in this article that the tail thruster could be reversed to provide enough reversed thrust to slow the aircraft to perform a dive bombing maneuver.
The AH-56 should receive more weaponry than just I-Tows and FFARs. These are the only external weapons mentioned in the AH-56 familiarization manual, but there are plenty of period pictures and references to it being capable of carrying a wide range other weapons including: bombs, napalm tanks, fuel tanks, bullpup missiles, shillelagh missiles, 4.5 inch rockets, up to 12,000 lbs total at 40% fuel load
