This video is a rip of a bonus feature on the "Sikorsky Fan Tail" DVD, showing a U.S. Army promotional film on the RAH-66 Comanche stealth reconnaissance/attack helicopter.
I worked for the company that competed against others win the contract to build the engine for the Comanche helicopter. They already had an unused engine design from a cancelled Air Force trainer so it was reconfigured into what is now the T800 turboshaft engine. The company acquired a UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) from a logging company and used it as a test bed for T800 engine. When competing bids were submitted for the government contract, it involved blue prints and theoretical estimates of horsepower and specific fuel consumption, etc.... When my company's (LHTEC) turn to submit, it involved all the requested material and "oh, by the way, here's a video of our engine in flight and here is the actual dynamometer readings of horsepower, torque and specific fuel consumption"...............That's how you win a contract! Unfortunately the program was cancelled, but the T800 went on to be used in other applications, both civilian and military.
Yes its expensive, but was undeniably capable and perfect for CAS due to highly degree of flight mobility.... Allowing it to find best angle for suppression fire
it was underpowered and could be downed by a single 12.7mm round also, there's no reason for a stealth body on a helicopter because A: the rotor is loud and alerts anyone nearby and B: the body shape necessary for an attack helicopter will always be in a geometric zone of radar reflectivity
Yes it's a good visual model but unfortunately it's not at all realistic in any other way. For the best experience, nothing has ever come close to NovaLogic's Comanche Gold.
Good old video, ahead of its time in that era thats for sure, i do believe this design was kept and later used on the stealth chopper used in the osama raid, which has still been kept secret till this day 👌👍
The Comanche is still ahead of its time in some respects even now, and no single helicopter since has incorporated all of the features it had. Also, while the specifics of the helicopter used in the Bin Laden raid have so far been largely kept secret, it's no secret that it was a Black Hawk retrofitted with stealth fairings.
So the ? Is were tf is it at i have a turbine rc model of the comanche ive played all the video games when i was 9 yrs old of course now 27 n still no chopper .. Thts wht i call fasle advertisment
@@FlyboyHelosim The story of the 2000's... all these awesome things and they get axed.. Dragon armor.. the XM8.. Instead we got a dumbass camo pattern that looked like salt'n pepper. Thank GOD that's done with.
It was not a fail. I was canceled. It was canceled to save money because the USA already had the best helicopter in the world and that therefore they did not need to spend billions and billions of dollars to get another one.
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I worked for the company that competed against others win the contract to build the engine for the Comanche helicopter. They already had an unused engine design from a cancelled Air Force trainer so it was reconfigured into what is now the T800 turboshaft engine. The company acquired a UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) from a logging company and used it as a test bed for T800 engine.
When competing bids were submitted for the government contract, it involved blue prints and theoretical estimates of horsepower and specific fuel consumption, etc.... When my company's (LHTEC) turn to submit, it involved all the requested material and "oh, by the way, here's a video of our engine in flight and here is the actual dynamometer readings of horsepower, torque and specific fuel consumption"...............That's how you win a contract!
Unfortunately the program was cancelled, but the T800 went on to be used in other applications, both civilian and military.
That's the most insight I've seen about the RAH-66. Thanks for the upload!
No problem, thanks for watching! Be sure to check out my other videos on the Comanche too!
Yes its expensive, but was undeniably capable and perfect for CAS due to highly degree of flight mobility.... Allowing it to find best angle for suppression fire
it was underpowered and could be downed by a single 12.7mm round
also, there's no reason for a stealth body on a helicopter because A: the rotor is loud and alerts anyone nearby and B: the body shape necessary for an attack helicopter will always be in a geometric zone of radar reflectivity
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Well we can play it in arms 3 as AH99 at least
Yes it's a good visual model but unfortunately it's not at all realistic in any other way. For the best experience, nothing has ever come close to NovaLogic's Comanche Gold.
"In the field."
And then it was featured in the Eric Bana Incredible Hulk movie, prompting the Pentagon to cancel it out of sheer embarrassment. 😄
Good old video, ahead of its time in that era thats for sure, i do believe this design was kept and later used on the stealth chopper used in the osama raid, which has still been kept secret till this day 👌👍
The Comanche is still ahead of its time in some respects even now, and no single helicopter since has incorporated all of the features it had. Also, while the specifics of the helicopter used in the Bin Laden raid have so far been largely kept secret, it's no secret that it was a Black Hawk retrofitted with stealth fairings.
Less time, less money and fewer people to fix it !
Military Industrial Complex : Oh hell no !
Does anyone know the official or “unofficial” number of commanche’s that actually were made and flew?
There were two prototypes that were airworthy.
State of the art war tech in obsolete video format.
Maybe 'obsolete' now but not back when this video was made.
@@FlyboyHelosim that's obsolete too
@@jasecee8992 You're obsolete.
@@FlyboyHelosim haha.. Now it's getting personal...
@@jasecee8992 Just fucking with you, dude. 😁
So the ? Is were tf is it at i have a turbine rc model of the comanche ive played all the video games when i was 9 yrs old of course now 27 n still no chopper .. Thts wht i call fasle advertisment
Not false advertisement. The Comanche was just about ready to go into production but the program was cancelled.
@@FlyboyHelosim The story of the 2000's... all these awesome things and they get axed.. Dragon armor.. the XM8.. Instead we got a dumbass camo pattern that looked like salt'n pepper. Thank GOD that's done with.
Is this the Bin Laden chopper?
No.
Fail
It was not a fail. I was canceled. It was canceled to save money because the USA already had the best helicopter in the world and that therefore they did not need to spend billions and billions of dollars to get another one.
@@obloodyhell1 yes i know but i was like it if that heli was aproved whit the army to see how that gonna be on the combat