A Furtive Revolution Founded on Stealth
To Believe or Not To Believe The abandonment of the RAH-66 Comanche combat helicopter was announced on 23 February with an abundance of precautions – the secret had been well kept, precluding resistance to abandoning the system. It is a major event in the history of weapon system development. It is, perhaps, a still more important event with regard to what has constituted, for over a quarter century, the foundation of the DoD armaments development philosophy. Presenting the causes of the abandonment of the program on 25 February, Army Chief of Staff Peter Schoomaker declared: >Comanche was a wonderful idea up until about 1989. […]… A Furtive Revolution Founded on Stealth