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[QUOTE="Jollygreenfe, post: 49771, member: 178"]
SOF grabed CSAR back in the day trying to get ahold of the money that was alocated to the CSAR-X program, unfortunatly for them from what I understand the color of money used for the funding percluded the funds transfer to AFSOC and the rest is history, AFSOC said thanks for playing but you can go back to ACC.

As for the best airframe, that is subject to severe opinion. I have flown on a 47D and have worked on the US101 program and I PERSONALLY perfer the 101, we were flying a lowlevel sortie at 50 ft and 120 kts bouncing around the red desert and it felt as smooth as a cadilac on the highway. One HUGE factor also is the almost non-exhistant brown out, seems as you get closer to the ground you have a nice little ring around the airframe but you can still call an approch without getting pummeld with rocks and sand. I dont even want to get into the rotor downwash differaces between the 47 and 101, I would much rather have my PJ's in the water under a 101 then a 47.

The S-92 doest even make my short list as a CSAR platform do to the small cabin and poor weapons mounting ability.

So I guess we will see if the AF will recap the Pavehawk fleet with some Mike models or just wait it out or maybe a little of both. Also don't forget, CVLSP has not been canxed (yet) so pull out the popcorn and lets see how that plays out.

Cheers!
Jolly
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