Do you even know what paper means?
(we still have the placeholder how is this fixed?)
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gunner controls the helicopter >:(
TL:DR: Comanche is peak.
Conceptually, yes, it is difficult to develop a stealth helicopter. The only one that has come close to this is the Comanche, which has radio, IR, acoustic and optical visibility many times less than the same Kiowa, not to mention the Apache. Radio visibility may not be so significantly reduced, but this is not so important, it was reduced, and reduced significantly.
The main parameter that was reduced was IR visibility. And this was a huge leap from Apache and Kiowa. No one has been able to repeat this yet, because the technology of such air mixing as on Comanche requires initial design. Also, even the tail boom of this helicopter makes you think about current helicopters. A massive structure that can accommodate many systems. And this is clearly better than expanding EFAB on Apache once again.
People who think the Comanche is a bad helicopter are weird. It’s not bad. It’s great. It failed for one reason. It tried to replace a scout helicopter that doesn’t need replacing and should just be allowed to die.
And the Comanche is the only helicopter that was developed after the late 90s that could and should have been accepted into service. After its cancellation, the US launched two programs to replace the Kiowa, both were canceled. Funny.
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Commanche had dual flight controls IIRC, so front or back could fly
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Oooooo, my only problem I have is simply the place holder cockpit
Yeah placeholders suck. Whats even worse is they promised to fix most of them ages ago (looking at bombers) yet most still have just thrown together ones
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F-1’s cockpit is still “accepted” since 3+ years ago, one of the GM’s mentioned to me that they only do it on “Major updates”, 2 major updates later still lacking
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Adding this here since I find it interesting.
Dunno why but Stona has been canning functionally every single post I’ve seen regardless of the location asking what happened to the RAH-66’s armor.
Very curious.
Am working on an additional report to get the armor re-added, if folks have some photos beyond what was posted int he dev server forums on the subject of it’s armor that would be fantastic! Should not have been an issue in the first place but this is par for the course now.
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Maybe it made it too resistant to missile shrapnel from proxy detonations or something like that and they just dont want it to be that way so they are ignoring it and pretending its not an issue. They do that all the time with historical/realism issues if fixing them changes gameplay in a way they dont like
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unless its russian equipment then 500 billion buffs
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I am aware, I’m more interested in Stona shutting down any discussion on the subject.
Its one thing to say that they think its unbalanced, its another to just can every single thread asking why the removal occurred.
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Russian mains complained too much about it being the best helicopter in game / gaijin told moderators to squash any outcry is my guess. I’ve had 2 topics about the removal of armor closed by Stona and I’m still disgusted with how they did pre-sale guys dirty.
This helicopter needs work. Sometimes it just falls out of the sky, it needs a toggle AOA limit switch or it just sheers the engine, the armor needs to get thrown back in and the chaingun needs less overheat
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You are correct the -66 had a significantly reduced RCS.
The bigger problem was Russia fell apart, we didn’t need a super expensive recon helicopter and the -66 couldn’t hold the weapons load it reported internally, so it didn’t meet all of the design specs and cost a ton, largely negating the role of a light scout helicopter.
Except it could meet the role as it was primarily intended to replace the OH-58’s (which served until shortly after I retired). As is, the 66 was easily as versitile if not more so, and better armed than the 58’s (which in country ran 2 Hellfires and a .50 cal). The only drawback would be the size and weight.
Budgeting was the probelm with the cost overruns, then with GWOT in full swing it was cut to allocate the money to more priority spending (such as the uparmored 1151’s then eventually our MRAPs. Mind you we still had M16A4’s fielded as late as 2006, 2 years after the project was cut, as the army was still in the process of distributing M4’s to modernize all of its units). Had that not all started, it probably would have entered service around 2007-2008 slowly replacing the 58’s that were in service (and whos service was extended far too long)
Well except the role was more than just “replace the OH-58”
And the role it was intended to fill went away.
I don’t disagree it’s a better helicopter, but it was much bigger, would have cost substantially more to maintain, and while it had some very cool capabilities, those really weren’t huge advantages in the wars we have fought since it was conceived.
I suspect you mean A2’s? And we had them fielded way longer than 06.