The Boeing-Sikorsky RAh-66 Comanche Stealth Helicopter

If the RAH-66 is a stealth helicopter, how does it keep stealth when its rotatable wing is rotating, I wonder?

To refute your statement that the RAH-66 is "vulnerable to small arms fire", I paraphrase from various US Military Documents, so as not to disclose their still Classified Status:

"The airframe is crash worthy and ballistically tolerant to 23mm gunfire.

The rear rotor is able to withstand impact by 12.7mm rounds "

Since most enemy small arms fire is the 7.62 AK47 round......

Also, the Comanche is NOT a scout. Officially, it is The RAH-66 Comanche Reconnaissance / Attack Helicopter" The amount of missiles and rockets it can carry/deploy makes it more ATTACK than RECON. A better description would be STEALTH/ATTACK.


The reason this was scrapped was political, not military. I wish I could divulge more info, but I would be compromising NSA Regulations.

Good Day.

RipRap

I don't understand the concept of a stealth helicopter. Most of them are brought down by visual ID of them with small arms fire. Seems like a waste of money. Everyone knows when a helicopter is attacking you, which is when it is most vulnerable.

Give me a Warthog Helicopter over a stealth one any day.

Does anyone else find it sickening and disgusting that so much money is spent on these machines of death/murder by the major powers etc when there are so many people living in hardship and poverty?

Nope, I thought not you homicidal maniacs