Video Friday: Unmanned Little Bird Controllable From Apache

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 14 of November , 2008 at 5:41 am

Robot helicopters are neat little machines, but they’re just that: little. And purpose built, and expensive. Boeing had the bright idea of taking an off the shelf (so to speak) helicopter, the MH-6 Little Bird, and rigging it for both manned and unmanned (either remote or autonomous) operation. It’s suitable for combat, transport, resupply, or just about any other scenario. The coolest part is that the little bird can be controlled from the cockpit of an Apache attack helicopter, as sort of a reconnaissance drone.

FutureWeapons has the skinny:

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