Bombardier CA-200 Scorpion

The Bombardier CA-200 Scorpion was a Canadian designed attack tiltrotor based on the Canadair CL-84 Dynavert.

The Scorpion is powered by a pair of Pratt and Whitney Canada PT127G turboprop engines (which had eight bladed carbon composite propellers) each delivering 3,058 hp which were interconnected so that if one failed the other could take over driving the aircraft. The aircraft included a monster 30mm seven-barreled Gatling gun mounted underneath the pilot, with the pilot mounted above and behind the gunner as on most attack helicopters. The aircraft had an internal weapons bay capable of carrying four Hellfire anti-tank missiles, while also carrying 250-lb bombs, rocket pods, more anti-tank missiles, Penguin anti-ship missiles, extra fuel tanks or machine gun pods. The tail all moved, too, with the rear rotor being able to rotate 90 degrees to get better stability. The proposed production aircraft would have armor underneath it and all around the cockpit and engines, IR suppressors, all the latest electronics (including the AN/APG-78 Longbow radar) and self-sealing fuel tanks, giving it durability to take fire and keep on fighting. The Scorpion was also designed with aerial refueling capability.

On August 24, 2011, a mockup of the Scorpion was introduced to the world at the Canadian National Exhibition. The Scorpion's existence caused many to ask how the hell Bombardier managed to build and engineer something that had given the Americans fits for decades - at least until somebody looked up the Canadair CL-84 Dynavert and saw many of the differences in design and ideas.