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Inspired by a thread from June about an AK47-jet.

Would it be viable to design and build a helicopter that was capable of some limited air defence role? I'm not thinking of something that is designed to take on F-16s in air combat but more of a design that could...

a) be used for defence above warships, some sort of close in CAP?

and/or

b) be able to undertake a similar role over the frontline of a battlefield, possibly taking on other helicopters and ground attack aircraft

and/or

c) as a development of the earlier AK47 idea, a cheap way for a small nation to have a token air defence capability.

No idea if its even possible but something I have wonder about recently
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