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Future Weapons: AH-6X Little Bird UAV

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An unmanned Little Bird helicopter could fly nap-of-the-earth autonomously using software-enabled control (SEC) technology developed for unmanned air vehicles under a US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and US Air Force Research Laboratory project. The software enables a UAV to fly low, hugging the terrain, determining safe landing zones using vision-based algorithms and avoiding known and pop-up threats. Boeing's SEC developers are evaluating the Little Bird, based on MD Helicopters' MD530F Maverick; an unmanned variant of the Robinson R22; and the A160 Hummingbird rotary-wing UAV. SEC is a standards-based middleware that could be used for complex mission management.

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: April 12, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Author: MH6M

Length: 09:45
Rating: 4.62
Views: 23866

Tags: Aerial  AH6X  Bird  Future  Little  Unmanned  Vehicle  Weapons  

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mytotallyawesomename (August 10, 2008 at 8:23 pm)
in the future there gonna train hamsters to fly choppers
UmbrellaCorp1 (August 4, 2008 at 9:37 pm)
that would be funny for a person in a 3rd world country in wartime to see a heli flying without pilots
kramerican (August 2, 2008 at 11:27 pm)
How come this show isn't on discovery anymore??
kryjchek (July 23, 2008 at 2:28 pm)
Doesn't it seem a waste to send a Little Bird ahead of an Apache, instead of a little robot UAV that can do the same thing? Just a thought.
flameout12345 (July 21, 2008 at 1:04 pm)
Ya, Next time we can one guy controling 100 tanks, 50 apaches and 20 little birds.
robtriton (July 13, 2008 at 9:36 pm)
Kill those Towel heads! Ooorah! (13B)
dustywar (July 6, 2008 at 7:25 pm)
yeah true, but it would be cool to control it from the apache
HandOfMe (July 3, 2008 at 10:36 pm)
In the Vietnam war, the little bird traditionally scouted ahead of the Cobras...it's nice to see they have kept the tradition alive (and their enemies dead?! hahah)
Wormtail81 (June 6, 2008 at 3:15 pm)
This is a really good idea.
MH6M (June 2, 2008 at 7:56 pm)
Right on ! What the pleasure of being a pilot if you don't have any stick time...

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