Things that would have been fine get killed all the time for various reasons. Politics, budgetary reasons, no longer required. The f-20 springs to mind, nothing wrong with it at all but overshadowed by the f-16, no foreign sales etc.
Competitive designs get killed sure, but the mystic Cyrus was exclaiming how they killed it because it was “too good” which is either gross incompetence from the USA military, or, the AH-56 was utter crap.
Either way it was never used, so we’ll never know how good it was.
It’s like playing poker, you spent the money to get into the game, why would you toss a winning hand? You wouldn’t.
Therefore:
I mean, requirements change, or a great system might not meet the ones that actually matter despite doing great everywhere else, or the vehicle may be outstanding but costs an absolute fortune.
The best vehicle doesn’t always win and there’s a plethora of reasons why that might be.
It’s not the Matrix; they live in a bubble. Honestly, I find them funny. They go through this whole mental exercise to prove something and fail miserably, and when they can’t prove it, they resort to personal attacks or attacks on another country’s equipment.
Dude, you’re one of the worst here, lol. Just admit it already: “I hate Russia and that’s why I’ll be complaining about them in every thread.” Just funny
Why do you think I would get into a discussion about “free and democratic countries” in a place that isn’t even for that?
You just proved that I was right in what I said. Haha
I’m surprised this wasn’t closed for being repeatedly off topic when we stopped talking about top tier and instead about:
2 real world conflicts
Who invented the helicopter
The world press freedom index
Probably something else I’m missing
Because you accused others of living in an information bubble yet youre the one relying exclusively on controlled, homogeneous sources from one country.