>>509875946
That would have actually been useful to the brits. Especially for air superiority.
Load up the biggest and best AA nissiles on it.

What they really should develop is a transport helicopter to exploit the air superiority and surgical strikes. I don’t think that would anger the American MIC to the point of killing the program. They would likely be confused but it would work I think.
1. Gain air superiority
2. Do a surgical strike some where
3. Exploit the chaos and air superiority by landing two teams for infiltration, exfiltration or reinforcing existing lines
4. Leave.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimarcisia