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	RAH-66 Comanche - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Boeing/Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche was an advanced U.S. Army military helicopter intended for the armed reconnaissance role, incorporating stealth techniques.
		The Army planned to purchase almost 1,300 Comanches to fill the scout and light attack roles, with the first craft to be brought into the Army in 2004.
		However, on February 23, 2004, the U.S. Army announced their decision to cancel the Comanche helicopter program in view of the growing popularity in the military of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for reconnaissance purposes – in addition to tests, UAVs had proved their worth in the American War on Terrorism against Afghanistan and Iraq.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Comanche_helicopter (599 words)

	Novalogic Comanche 4 PC Review
		It's been said that the new generation of tanks, military planes, and helicopters are becoming more and more like video games as onboard computers take up a greater part of the pilot's role.
		Your helicopter is marked in blue and throughout the game you'll often be the only thing standing out on your radar.
		Comanche 4 is a quality simulation, an entertaining game, but not the kind of exciting innovation that is going to inspire huge crowds of players to run out and buy it.
	www.gamenationtv.com /reviews/comanche4.shtml (1674 words)

	RAH-66 Comanche - Military Aircraft
		The Comanche is intended to replace the current fleet of AH-1 and OH-58 helicopters in all air cavalry troops and light division attack helicopter battalions, and supplement the AH-64 Apache in heavy division/corps attack helicopter battalions.
		The Comanche is slated to replace the AH-1 Series Cobra light attack helicopter, the OH-6A Cayuse, and the OH-58A/OH-58C Kiowa light observation helicopters.
		The Comanche is the first helicopter in which the infrared (IR) suppression system is integrated into the airframe.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ac/rah-66.htm (1161 words)

	The Comanche helicopter (Nick Lappos)
		Comanche will be able to handle RF Hellfire in teamwork with Apache, so cooperative shoots will be possible.
		Comanche has much lower detectability than Apache (or any other helo) and can survive where Apache is very vulnerable, and where an OH-58D is totally outclassed.
		Comanche has a bunch of new stuff that drops the need for the pilot to worry about his machine, lots of stuff that takes care of itself and lets the crew find the enemy and kill them.
	yarchive.net /air/comanche.html (1415 words)

	Army cancels Comanche helicopter program (2/23/04)
		The contractors for Comanche are Boeing Co. and United Technologies' Sikorsky Aircraft division.
		The Comanche was conceived to replace the Army's existing fleet of OH-58 and AH-1 scout and attack helicopters.
		The Comanche was supposed to significantly expand the Army's ability to conduct operations day and night and in poor weather.
	www.govexec.com /dailyfed/0204/022304cdpm2.htm (349 words)

	pogo.org Fighting With Failures: RAH-66 Comanche Helicopter 1/21/2004 Project On Government Oversight
		The RAH-66 Comanche is a twin-engine, two-pilot, stealthy, light attack and armed reconnaissance helicopter being developed by Boeing/Sikorsky for the U.S. Army.
		When the Comanche was first conceived in 1983, the Army planned to purchase 5,023 of the helicopters at a cost of $12.1 million a copy.
		The Comanche's radar is required to achieve an 80 percent probability rate of detection of moving targets.
	www.pogo.org /p/defense/da-040101-comanche.html (774 words)

	Army Technology - RAH-66 Comanche - Reconnaissance/Attack Helicopter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
		The Comanche has two identical cockpits for the pilot and the co-pilot, which are sealed and have a positive pressure air system for protection against chemical and biological warfare.
		The Comanche is equipped with a suite of passive sensors and a computer-aided Northrop Grumman mission planning system, which carries out sensor data fusion, high-speed analysis and correlation of the sensor data.
		The internal fuel capacity of the helicopter is 1,142 litres.
	www.army-technology.com /projects/comanche (1139 words)

	Boeing: First Comanche Helicopter Prototype Unveiled
		The Comanche is being developed by a team of companies led by Boeing Defense and Space Group, Helicopters Division, and the Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp.
		Designing, testing, building and delivering Comanche helicopters will, he said, "fulfill our sacred pledge to provide this nation's fighting men and women with the best equipment possible to carry out their heroic missions and return safely to their homes and families.
		The Comanche's next-generation night pilotage and target-acquisition systems and its digital communications equipment will make it the primary tactical reconnaissance information source for Army ground units and attack helicopters, as well as for the Air Force and Navy.
	www.boeing.com /ids/news/1995/news.release.950525.html (562 words)

	CNN.com - Army cancels Comanche helicopter - Feb. 23, 2004
		Pentagon officials also said the Comanche, conceived in 1983 during the Cold War, was a victim of changing needs as the military's focus has shifted to the war on terrorism.
		Schoomaker also said keeping the Comanche "survivable" in the current threat environment would require design changes that would cost "several billion dollars" and erode the chopper's stealth capability, one of the primary reasons for developing the aircraft.
		The helicopters were being built at a plant in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
	www.cnn.com /2004/US/02/23/helicopter.cancel (611 words)

	RAH-66 Comanche
		As of September 2002 the Army was considering a plan to cut the number of Comanche helicopters by almost 40%, to about 800, amid growing pressure to cancel the program entirely.
		The contractor team would produced the first 650 Comanches for 14 to 15 years at a rate of up to 60 helicopters per year [a reduction from the previously planned maximum annual procurement rate of 95 per year].
		The approved Comanche test program would have provided ample opportunity to evaluate these technical issues and determine the effectiveness and suitability of the Comanche helicopter.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/aircraft/rah-66.htm (1069 words)

	Comanche 4 helicopter game reviewed by Helosim.com
		Comanche 2 and 3 were efforts to reach the level of simulation that would please the hardcore sim crowd; these were met with mixed criticism.
		The overall feel of Comanche 4 is in line with other recent simulations with the notable exception that the inertia of a 12,000 helicopter seemed to be missing.
		The Comanche bears all the weapons that make it a lethal platform--20mm cannon, stinger missiles, Hydra rockets, and Hellfire missiles in varying degrees of loadout (not configurable in advance but if a FARP is available you can reload).
	www.helosim.com /review_com4.htm (2010 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Washington / Army to end Comanche helicopter program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
		Doubts about the wisdom of investing tens of billions in new manned aircraft have been strengthened by the rising popularity of unmanned aerial vehicles and the prospect that such drone aircraft will eventually be able to perform attack missions in addition to reconnaissance.
		It is a twin-engine, two-pilot helicopter with stealth technology designed to make it more difficult to track and target by enemy forces.
		Although killing the Comanche project would save tens of billion in future costs, the cancellation decision is expected to require the Army to pay at least $2 billion in contract termination fees.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2004/02/23/army_to_end_comanche_helicopter_program (613 words)

	DoD Talking Points - Army's Comanche Helicopter
		One result is the termination of the RAH-66 Comanche, an armed reconnaissance helicopter.
		When the Comanche was envisioned, starting in 1983, the program made sense in the context of the threat faced at the time.
		It is critical to the Army for the ongoing War on Terror and for the future that funds identified for the Comanche program remain with Army aviation.
	www.military.com /NewContent/0,13190,022504_Comanche,00.html (454 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Army terminates Comanche copter
		WASHINGTON -- The US Army announced yesterday that it is canceling the Comanche helicopter program after spending nearly $7 billion over the past decade on the project once hailed as a key weapon for the 21st-century battlefield.
		And the Army acknowledges that the helicopters used by the National Guard and Army Reserve are being utilized nearly as much as the active forces, but are less equipped with armor and avionics to operate in hostile environments.
		For example, with the $14.6 billion that was to be spent to purchase 121 Comanches between now and 2011, the Army will be able to upgrade 801 helicopters and purchase 903 new ones.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/02/24/army_terminates_comanche_copter (655 words)

	Comanche
		The Army's helicopter fraternity and its defense-industry allies, who give millions of dollars to the political campaigns of senators and representatives, have managed to beat back such challenges during the Comanche's long and difficult birth.
		Since many countries purchase helicopters from US manufacturers, logic would seem to dictate that it would be more efficacious to have maintenance and repair for US armed forces' helicopters available from other countries, and visa-versa, when such coalition operations are undertaken.
		As well, planning and controlling coalition operations would have more flexibility as an entire helicopter unit may not need to be dispatched to an area of operation if say, there were a helicopter maintenance unit from another coalition country in the area of operation.
	www.g2mil.com /Comanche.htm (2823 words)

	USATODAY.com - Pentagon cuts Comanche copter program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
		It is a blow to Boeing, which builds the Comanche in a joint venture with Sikorsky Aircraft in Bridgeport, Conn. The Bush administration has been under pressure from Congress and government watchdog groups to cancel at least one of a long list of high-priced weapons programs.
		Events and higher priorities overtook the RAH-66 Comanche, a program that had its beginnings 21 years ago when the Soviet threat was foremost on the minds of Pentagon planners.
		Lately, senior Army officials had begun to have doubts about the delay-plagued Comanche, a two-person aircraft designed to be less visible to radar while conducting attack and reconnaissance missions.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-02-23-comanche-program_x.htm (707 words)

	Army scraps helicopter project - U.S. News - MSNBC.com
		The per-unit cost of the scrapped helicopter has more than quadrupled, from $12.1 million per aircraft when the Army planned to buy 5,023 of them, to $58.9 million when the purchase was cut back to 650.
		Dropping the Comanche is unlikely to stir the kind of controversy sparked by Rumsfeld’s decision in 2002 to kill the Crusader.
		In the case of the Comanche, Schoomaker stressed at Monday’s news conference that it was an Army initiative.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4352277 (1024 words)

	WARPLANES: Comanche &Hiding Helicopter Heat - Starsiege:2845 Forums
		Sorry to tell you this but the Comanche was cancelled this year (although researchinto the Congressional Budget Reports show that a few still may be purchased).
		Helicopters are a staple of modern warfare, it would be a shame to stall thier developement like this.
		It could concievably be used as a security helicopter for large corporations, provided the serious armaments are removed and replaced with non-lethal measures (Teargas launcher instead of missile racks, perhaps toned down paintballs in the gun turret, and a 13 or 12 mm side cannon for heavy self-defense.
	www.starsiege2845.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=4444 (3137 words)

	Canceling Comanche: All the Right Moves
		A program like Comanche, originally proposed in the 1980s, made sense when we needed helicopters that could fight their way through the thick of Soviet air defenses.
		To field Comanche, at $53 million per aircraft, would have presented the Army a Hobson’s choice, strangling funds for the maintenance and procurement of the current generation of aircraft or other critical programs in order to buy an extremely expensive platform that provides more capability than the Army really requires right now.
		Therefore, some of the dollars planned for the Comanche program should be reinvested in the Army’s current generation of helicopters so that these systems remain effective and reliable until truly new transformational capabilities can be added to the force.
	www.heritage.org /Research/NationalSecurity/wm433.cfm (538 words)

	An Analysis of U.S. Army Helicopter Programs
		The Comanche, which the Army refers to as an armed reconnaissance helicopter, would fill all of the Army's scout and light attack requirements when it was fully fielded in the late 2020s.
		Nevertheless, even as the Army introduced new, sophisticated Comanche helicopters into its fleet in the 2020s, the Longbow Apaches would be nearly 20 years past their upgrade and so would begin to suffer from technological obsolescence.
		By the time the Comanches were fully integrated in 2027, the average age of the Apache airframes would be 40 years and the technological age of the avionics would be nearing 30 years.
	www.cbo.gov /showdoc.cfm?index=12&sequence=4 (5346 words)

	DEF-19 CANCEL THE ARMY'S COMANCHE HELICOPTER PROGRAM
		The Comanche program, when it was conceived in 1983, was intended to develop one aircraft that, in two different configurations, could replace not only the Vietnam-era scout and attack helicopters described above but also the UH-1 utility helicopters of the same vintage.
		That cost increase is significant, particularly in a helicopter whose development was originally justified on the basis of its being inexpensive to purchase, operate, and maintain.
		Some analysts would argue that the threats the Comanche is likely to face would not demand the very sophisticated stealth, avionics, and aeronautic technologies slated for the new helicopter, but others would support the program as a way to maintain the U.S. lead in helicopter technology.
	www.fas.org /man/congress/1997/cbo_deficit/def19.htm (874 words)

	Bloomberg.com: U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
		The Comanche is designed to receive and process intelligence from drones and surveillance aircraft and pass it to ground units.
		That contract calls for the venture to deliver nine Comanche helicopters in 2005 and 2006 for test and evaluation improvements through 2011, according to United Technologies' annual filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
		Comanche subcontractors are the Honeywell Inc.-Rolls Royce Plc Light Helicopter Turbine Engine Co., Indianapolis; Harris Corp., Melbourne, Florida; and Northrop Grumman Inc., San Diego.
	quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aTaDFSD81RLI&refer=us (637 words)

	M. Behr, Rice MEMS - Comanche Helicopter Simulation
		The fuselage of the helicopter is modeled after Boeing Sikorsky Comanche prototype, although an exact reproduction of a particular type of helicopter was not among our top priorities.
		The helicopter is assumed to be in a forward horizontal flight, and a free-stream velocity of (10.0, 0.0, 0.0) m/s is imposed at the upstream boundary.
		Figure 6c illustrates the evolution of the pressure field on the fuselage of the helicopter.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~behr/comanche.html (539 words)

	RAH-66A Comanche Helicopter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
		The RAH-66 Comanche helicopter is the U. Army's attack helicopter for the 21st Century.
		During 1995, the Comanche began a program of ground vibration and flight tests, intended to validate structural dynamic performance of the airframe and to demonstrate the helicopter's performance characteristics.
		Mason, Patrick H. Identification of random loads impinging on the RAH-66 Comanche Helicopter empennage using spectral analysis.
	www.redshift.com /~gordis/JHGsite/Comanche.html (363 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Americas \| Pentagon cancels helicopter plans
		The helicopter, the Comanche, has been under development for two decades and would have cost nearly $40bn.
		At over $31bn, the Comanche is one of the most expensive weapons programmes ever to have been cancelled.
		In the end, they decided their priority should be other types of new helicopters, modernising their current machines and providing them with more protection and spending more on unmanned reconnaissance drones.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/3515559.stm (375 words)

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