I can't believe it. First the f22 gets scaled back to nothing, then they cancel the venture star. Then the challenger artilliary system. And now, down the tubes goes the RAH 66 comanche.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&ncid=718&e=10&u=/ap/20040223/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/helicopter_cancellation
The ******* prototype is already built, tested, researched, and flying. They were just about to start building the damn thing. The money was already allocated. So is our official state policy just to sit on our technological asses until the Chinease catch up? I'm no alarmest, but it occurs to me that in a world with technological parity between the chinease and the U.S., they have 3 or 4 times our population...
Sure, unmanned aircraft are relitivly cheap and don't ahve people in them, but as soon as someone figures out how to crack spread spectrum encryption in real time, they are all going to become so much flying garbage. But not to fear, our 30 year old technology will save us!
Sheesh.