[rbg81]

So...we need to buy our helicopters from the Russians now? Pretty soon we’ll be buying our a/c from the Chinese.

[Gena Bukin]

So...we need to buy our helicopters from the Russians now?

Budget cutbacks. MH-53s ain't cheap.

[Spktyr]

Name a US-built 37 passenger chopper that has production available and isn’t the expensive-to-fly Chinook. Psst - isn’t one.

[ReformedBeckite]

If the Chinese could make one of our fighter aircraft for a million a piece but it took the U.S. 50 billion dollars a piece to make the same aircraft who do you think in the long run would win a war against each other if only the specific aircraft were involved. Economically I my self would go with the Chinese.

The big thing about the U.S. now days is it can't do anything major without a lot of red tape, money, and our split party government ok-ing it. It takes forever for plans on a computer to make it to reality.