Originally Posted by
SunderlandMatt
2. Not sure the Mildcat will be much good at anything recce/attack wise IMHO. I certainly wouldn't want to take it as my wing over another attack platform especially when sausage side in the kind of places The Arab Spring woke up.
I'm starting to think the Wildcat gets a raw deal:
- Whenever there's a thread on AH/recce it always get compared disparagingly to an Apache.
- Whenever there's a thread on SH it gets compared disparagingly to a Blackhawk.
- Meanwhile crash robustness, agility and shipborne operations are all ignored.
It's a swiss army knife of an aircraft, yes in a particular role there are probably better options, but there are few other individual aircraft that can fill as many different roles on the same flight.