South African Rooivalk Attack Helo Still in Limbo

I always thought that this was a promising project, particularly in an COINS application, as the SADF had that as its primary duty before the end of Apartheid.

It appears that I was wrong and the Rooivalk program is a mess (paid subscription required).

Only 12 production helos were delivered, there are no prospects for foreign sales, and they have dissimilar avionics fits across the fleet, and they are now talking about, "revised functionality within the existing allocated financial resources," which means downgraded capabilities.