Seems pretty bad-as to me. Why didn’t we have a bunch of these?
The project was cancelled.
I’m guessing because the A-10 did the same job and did it cheaper, and more reliably. The tech in this chopper probably scared them into thinking it would turn into a tarmac queen.
Helicopters are too vulnerable to ground attack. All those weapons become nearly useless when some yahoo manages to put a 20 cent bullet through the CPU.