The full story is a bit more than that. The engines alone are enough, this is not why it was rejected.
It was rejected because the engines were not just for the AH-2, but for a common AH-X / UH-X program both based around the OH-1 that included the AH-2 and a utility helicopter design. This meant that by a technicality the engine isn’t vehicle specific to the AH-2, which leaves us with nothing that is specifically made only for the AH-2.
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Basically lol. I couldn’t prove the engine was unique to this airframe
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I still think the rejection based on that line of reasoning is really dumb lol (not trying to criticize mods, just the standards). The parts commonality (including the engine) would make the engine technically unique to a small family of vehicles. The two airframes sharing the same engine were the whole point. I don’t see why we can’t get this when people advocate for unbuilt variants of existing vehicles/prototypes
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Personally I’d say the same, especially considering it’s not patchworked together from existing parts, but actually specifically developed for set of common domestic helicopters that the AH-2 was part of.
I feel like this is a point where the written suggestion rules can be used to both pass and reject it, and the moderator that looked at it probably just went with the safer option.
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Unfortunately, this suggestion was on the line for the litmus test they use, and it was decided that it couldn’t be accepted. Shame :(
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Shame indeed, i hate the stupid AH-64DJP what a horrible helicopter…
it doesn’t help the fact that gaijin doesn’t give Helis there armor
or redundancies
or the ability to fly on one engine
or even their actual weapons in the case of Longbow Apache