Comanche: $7 Billion Stealth Failure! #shorts

The F-117 Nighthawk, B-2 Stealth bomber, F-22 Raptor, F-35 Lightning II, and the upcoming B-21 Raider, while stealth technology has become present everywhere in modern fixed-wing military aircraft, it is still a novelty in military helicopters. From 1996 until 2004, Your beloved military dumped $7 billion from your tax money, and built 2 stealth helicopter prototypes, the Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche. The Comanche was intended to replace the Army’s OH-58 Kiowa, and reportedly had a radar cross section 360 times lower than A H-64 Apache! But ultimately the $7 billion program was cancelled without producing a single operational helicopter. Because the helicopters are poorly suited for stealth technology, due to its turbine exhaust blaring a piercing whine, the fuselage skin’s vibration rumbling like a drum and the tail rotor rasping like a buzzsaw." The Comanche's design had serious technical challenges in the areas of “software integration, radar signatures, gun system performance, and aided target detection algorithm performance."

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[mortenchristensrn]

It might have had a lot of problems... But damn it looked cool... 😎

[itspoint]

Wasn't a failure. The technology developed in the program were used in future programs

[crevis]

The chopper of Sega’s Jungle Strike.. was so cool back in 1994

[frank-qxmy]

Bruh the origins of the command and conquer generals Comanche

[chaselaqua]

ArmA 3 players: I've seen this one before

[TheBlackFox]

"the program was cancelled without producing a single operational helicopter" he says over video of working Comanche helicopters

[kody]

“Canceled” it either failed or worked way to well

[dominiclhouvum]

When i was a kid i used to watch about this helicopter on discovery channel. The comanchi.
Its was super gorgeous, now i know why it failed

[blackhelmet]

i remember seeing this chopper in that old hulk movie

[qtippy]

That looks like what they put in war thunder during that April fools event!

[Damocles]

But, the video games based on it were fun as hell lol

[Sabulover]

So that’s where they got the Akula design from

[endwargamefreak]

Was it a waste of money? We used A LOT of the stuff from this for our tier 1 units. The 160th SOAR boys were flying stealth helicopters on the Osama bin laden raid. Who knows what else they're using

[averagewaterenjoyer]

Damn I remember seeing this on the history channel been so long

[ryanm.]

$7 billion is the same cost the Americans paid to keep the air con running a year when in Afghanistan

[HFD-Doc]

For starters they built more than 2 and secondly they definitely worked better than you think. All I can say is they weren’t seen or used in the Persian Gulf in 2002. That didn’t happen. LoL

[greenflame]

Why deploy manned helicopters when you can send unmanned drones for recon? The drones are much quieter, harder to see and no pilots are at risk.

Having said that, the Comanche looks amazing. I have one on a military themed game I play online. I modified it to have explosive rounds in the minigun. It shreds.

[MrDDiRusso]

The HULK destroyed 2 RAH-66 Comanche helicopters.

[superfrycook]

Fun Fact:
RAH-66 Comanche is also seen in Command & Conquer Generals.

[akalksander]

It wasntba failure. It worked. The pentagon just didnt want to pay that much for a chopper.