So what if Google designed a Prius that can guide itself along Nevada ’s barren main road . The US Army has a whirlybird that can guide itself through warfare zones .
The ULB is the a la mode in a long short letter of Light Observational eggbeater . The US Army order more than a thousand of the choppers in 1965 for wakeful - duty personnel transport , accompaniment missions , elimination , and intelligence agency garner missions base on a winning design from Hughes ( now MD ) Aircraft that gravel out entries from both Fairchild - Hiller and Bell . These nimble and lightweight , two - seat eggbeater measure 32 - human foot in length and about ten - metrical foot marvellous with a 27 - metrical unit diameter rotor coil .
With a carrying content over 2,400 pound sterling , the Little Bird can easily be reequipped to function in a variety of military tasks . It can shuttle equipment and weapon resupplies to front - line of business troops , conduct intelligence gathering , act as a communications node , and even be prepped for rape . The AH-6 assault variation carry 2.75 - column inch diam Hydra-70 rocket , GPS - help Viper Strike SOPGM ( stand - off preciseness - channelise munition ) gliders , a GAU-19 miniskirt - throttle , and outboard benches for sneaky troop extractions in tight areas where Black Hawk whirlybird ca n’t shove . Outside of assault and extraction , which are still best get out to the on - board pilots , the Unmanned Little Bird can do all of these undertaking .
The UBL program is based on the MD 530F “ Little Bird ” helicopter , which has been fell since 1982 . It ’s powered by a 485kW Rolls - Royce 250 - C30 turboshaft engine and can be flown conventionally with either one or two cowcatcher on - board . And like other independent aircraft , it can can be programmed to fly itself or be flown remotely . Even more impressive is its ability to autonomously land on displace targets like truck convoy and , more latterly , ships on the open ocean . “ It is one matter to bring a UAV on a helipad even out for winds , ” said Dino Cerchie , Boeing Unmanned Little Bird program manager , in a press statement . “ It ’s a whole other storey when you also have translational and rotational movement of the ship pack of cards to speak . ”
In gain to its front - line duties , the Unmanned Little Bird political platform is also used as a training aircraft for new buffer as as well as a technology demonstrator and run bed for both military and civilian machine .
[ Wikipedia – Naval Drones – Boeing1,2,3 – UAS Vision – Image : Mike Goettings / Boeing , Dave1185 ]
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