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