Cannot fly into storms no de icing without icing and crashing. Cannot crash land with any chance of survival in airplane mode unless enginesrotors rotated up 6. Cannot autorotate in event of engine failures. Doesnt have crash worthy fuel cells. Cannot make abrupt maneuvers when landing in helicopter mode or could flip over on its back from Vortex Ring State asymmetric lift loss. Cannot be armed with multiple defense weapons to suppress enemy in LZ. How To Install True Combat Elite Machines Philippines' title='How To Install True Combat Elite Machines Philippines' />Cannot hover insert troops by rappelfast rope too much downwash, limited to predictable open area LZs. Huge radar target bigger than helicopters akin to two 7. Cannot carry ANY armored vehicles inside, my God its only 5. Its too small for us humansIts only going to get worse if we try to field this deathtrap to our men. Its a bad turboprop and a very bad helicopter, the very worst of both worlds. If I were Bell Id stop before its too late, save the company and pitch a slimmer V 2. EJECTION SEATS and call it a decade. Then you are not asking it to act like a hovering and landing helicopter in an enemy held combat zone with men packed inside like sardines surrounded by fuel, just to take off and land from forward operating bases to support ground units with observationfires manned by just 2 humans not two dozen. Even if V 2. 2s worked, it would take more time and more men to get effective combat power using the CV 2. CMH 4. 7DEF Chinook, which can deliver 3 times the men in a lift AND carry armored HMMWVs or far better yet TANKS 3 ton Wiesel or a 7 ton BV 2. S armored SUSV Ridgway or M1. Mini Gavin light tracked Armored Fighting Vehicles with battle dominating auto cannon, rockets, recoilless rifles and missile to the fight. Full Size M1. 13 Gavins cab be carried by Fixed Wing STOL Aircraft Like C 2. Js, C 1. 30s and Minis inside CH 5. E Super Stallion and CH 4. Chinook helicopters. HCB6. Qirk. X5. E. GA8v. Es. What matters is the END RESULT ON THE GROUND, not the means. As Sun Tzu said. what matters in war is VICTORY, not prolonged operations, however brilliantly executed. Even with a potent mobile fighting vehicle force packed into Chinooks, or MH 4. Es such an option would still have the timedistance and fuel factors to contend with to get to the target area and return to safety. While we can and must address the weak areas of helicopter Air Assault techniques, the fact remains YOU CAN GET MORE COMBAT POWER INTO A GIVEN AREA FASTER BY PARACHUTING AND AT LOWER RISK TO THE HIGH PERFORMANCE AIRCRAFT THAT DELIVER THEM THAN BY SLOWER, AIRLANDING HELICOPTERS. WHERE CAN WE LANDAs Colonel Kyle explains in his book, the ground at Desert One had to be first surveyed for firmness if it would accept rubber tired landing gear C 1. To do this a small Twin Otter turboprop plane was flown in and infared runway marking lights covertly emplaced. This small plane would have far less ground pressure than a 1. C 1. 30. The U. S.