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21 years and $6.9 billion into its development and only three years from entering production, the RAH-66 Comanche has been cancelled. The Army intends to request that $14.6 billion earmarked for 121 Comanches up to 2011 be used instead to buy 796 Sikorsky Blackhawks and modernize 1400 other helicopters already in service.
No word on what'll happen to the technology developed for the project, the five Comanches currently on the assembly line, or the jobs of the 400 workers at the Bridgeport, CT Sikorsky plant building them, but Bridgeport ain't happy about it.
