AH-1Z + Red Wolf: American example, NATO follow-through?

The European and Canadian helicopter industries can mobilize to produce huge forces in wartime.

A clear lesson of the Russo-Ukrainian War has been the great vulnerability of aircraft, but especially rotorcraft, to ground-based air defenses. In my note of last Friday, I observed how the US Army has finally taken heed, and is pivoting away from attack helicopters, choosing to retire about half its Apache aircraft in favor of many more new drones. In…