Old Puma rotors that nobody will buy in the civil world, superceeded by the 225 and NH-90 even in the EC biased world, obsolete in the military world. Makes maintenance a big deal, and makes its ballistic survivability a real problem for those who have to fly it against someone with bullets.
Weapons/sensors/cockpit = behind the most modern, or at lease equal in most ways.
unstable load, It is convenient to wrap yourself in the comfort of mythological international intrigue, but the Apache, Tiger and the big Russian machines leave the Rooivalk in 4th place. It is a "capable" machine in a world where greatness is required to break into the market.
Anyone who wants to match a Rooivalk against an Mi-28 or Apache has a strong death wish.
farmpilot - you have GOT to be kidding!