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Old 22nd Mar 2012, 17:20
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SunderlandMatt
 
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Why do you want a Swiss army knife of an aircraft? Look at Eurofighter 2000! Can't do much without a GR4.

Let AH-64D do the shooting, CH-47 do the lifting and UH-60* do the rest.

All of them are shipborne, agile as a helicopter needs to be and are battlefield proof. Lynx, sorry, Wildcat still has both of it's engines right next to each other!

The Recce function would be done with one of those little RC things or by AH.

*UH-60 could then be subdivided into various role specific types.
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