Quote " all they have waited for is some US Military dollars to do the job!"
Now there's a thing no other helo manufacturer would do. Just try to imagine it, having the tax-payer foot the bill for R & D of a military project, then using the technology to improve the bottom line on the civil side of the business. I just cannot see how they could sleep nights.
It would be rather like some company using a military machine as the basis for a civil helicopter. Wouldn't happen in the US!
Like, when we offer up a new type for POTUS we are talking NEW here, not bits copied from a military ship.
Whatever will those Europeans do next?
(Why? What'id I say?)