I’ve been told helicopters of any sort are terribly expensive and inefficient. Especially heavy brutes like this, but their mobility is a necessity. That’s why the US isn’t in any rush to fork out dough for a new toy when the ones they got work just fine… usually. Chinook gunships are pretty wicked cool anyway and they can be loaded with more weaponry than the Hind, carry like 30 troops and are still pretty fast.
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Personally, I say the Mi-28 Havoc is the ugliest.

@...casemods: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but what sort of primitive mentality can’t understand that everything and anything can benefit from aesthetics?

Aesthetics aren’t just appearance, but also the harmonious beauty of form and function gracefully working together. Thus the sleek sweetness that naturally comes with aerodynamics…

But it is always wiser to perfect the basic function before the trimmings.

But then, in contemplating beauty, I remember that there is beauty in all things and it only takes the right perspective to see it. Heeyuk.

I’m still sad the Comanche got canceled. Sure it was little more than an Apache with curves… but that’s why i loved it… and wanted a purple one… with neon green tiger stripes. I’d kill for that thing… and then I’d kill with that thing. (poachers mostly. and the Vatican, but i’d give them twenty minutes to vacate it first.)

Anyone who gets me one for x-mas, can come along for rides and have me as a sex slave (so long as I still had ample time to fly it and hunt bad guys.) But I’ll settle for a Little Bird.