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At termination ships 3 and 4 were ready for engines.TinWing there were many of us who wondered why it had to be an "all or nothing" effort. The airframe, dynamics and engines were good. It was the Mission Equipment Package and its' tempermental maintainance (along with other special stuff) that was dragging the effort. A less ambitious MEP (and other stuff) Block 1 in the field might have been a worth combat helo. The leadership likely assumed that to do anything less than the full kit would have gotten the program cancelled in Congress. Might have, but Congress was not the ones who killed it.
At termination ships 3 and 4 were ready for engines.
TinWing there were many of us who wondered why it had to be an "all or nothing" effort. The airframe, dynamics and engines were good. It was the Mission Equipment Package and its' tempermental maintainance (along with other special stuff) that was dragging the effort. A less ambitious MEP (and other stuff) Block 1 in the field might have been a worth combat helo. The leadership likely assumed that to do anything less than the full kit would have gotten the program cancelled in Congress. Might have, but Congress was not the ones who killed it.
