The Bell V-280 flew years before Defiant
and hits all agility
and speed requirements.
Many Army pilots have experienced Valor’s performance
during years of extensive flight testing.
The US Army is ours.
Defiant-X will be victorious.
My Füher…
The Army
The Army selected V-280 for FLRAA.
We have been defeated.
The following stay in the room: Defiant-X PM, CE, and partner Presidents.
They chose a fucking tiltrotor?
We are Army aviation and you lost it!
You engineers told me that X-2 Technology works!
That the problems of the XH-59A were solved.
You engineers have lied to me.
Admit it. Defiant is a piece of shit.
The industry laughs at Defiant’s speed and size!
The propeller, the transmission, the blades
We designed the best FLRAA X-2.
Why the fuck did it take so long to produce blades?
We used advanced robotic technology…
And what the fuck are those outrageous rotor loads!?
Did you read books?!
Your gearboxes barely work,
your main rotor head is weak and heavy,
and the clutch is nothing but trouble.
All your drag and performance analysis was wrong!
Even with wind tunnel testing and analysis, our cruise speed is shit.
We have an aircraft that can’t even hit Vh.
Bell even showed good agility at the X. That was our claim!
The Army now has tiltrotors.
We used to be leaders and now we can’t meet their needs.
X-2 Technology wasn’t mature!
This is a disaster.
Other militaries will order tiltrotors and the performance floor
will be forever raised for tactical aviation.
The tiltrotor is the right solution.
A winged aircraft with speed and range we can’t match.
And what do we have? Too many blades!
Don’t worry, we can still upgrade H-60’s.
A fucking wing.
A rigid rotor of this diameter simply isn’t practical.
Perhaps FARA works.
We need to develop a new approach.
Something winged but not used in service by any military today.
Something never been shown practical.
Perhaps a tilt wing.