Army ends 20-year helicopter program

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:34:45 -0500, "George Z. Bush"
wrote:

Since this Reagan era DOD project survived the Reagan DOD evaluations, and those
of Daddy Bush, and those of Bill Clinton, we now have arrived at the present
situation, with our present DOD deciding that the project was unworthy of
completion and not worth spending any more money on. Why do I have that uneasy
feeling that brain surgery is about to be done by our neighborhood podiatrist?
Why do I feel that they'd rather spend the money on some other project, like
Star Wars, that they'd like rather than this one that the Army has said all
along that it needs?

While I'm no supporter of Star Wars (since it does damn all against a
nuke arriving Fed-ex, a rather larger risk), I would point out one
thing. .....

It's the Army cancelling the Comanche, at least according to the
reports I've seen.

My guess is the money saved will go towards more armed UAVs and
(hopefully) more armed scouts of the OH-58D variety for the Guard.

Of course it *could* be used to go towards making the budget a little
more balanced, but that seems unlikely.

Peter Kemp