R22 hellfire - pics

[thecontroller]

not sure if you all have seen this before:

[verticalhold]

Looks like the answer to President Tones next round of defence cuts

[Graviman]

Any ideas on control system details? Wasn't sure if the development team had figured a chimpanzee training program, or got fly-by-wire to work with teetering rotors.

Mart

[HOSS 1]

$50,000 helicopter for a $500,000 missle!

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Does the smart missile tow the dumb R22 (possibly packed with explosives) to the target and then drop it on the baddies?

[540DEGREE TorqueTurn]

oh so you wanna run back ...do you

having burned up a few hrs chasing !!!!ters around some of the the most worst country to muster , these pictures are or where the ideal machine that we wanted. we all had visions of this machine and wanted it in our grasps


Mustering machine

[aclark79]

That is an RC R22 right?

[outofwhack]

Sure its RC (radio-controlled) but its still a fullsize R22 carrying a real missile.

[Disguise Delimit]

It would be an interesting cg shift when one missile fires and the other is still hanging out there on its rack.The high and wide skids are to make up for the one-skid-low landing attitude if you get a hang-up?

The frosted glass is so that the pilot isn't dazzled by the rocket flare. The unfaired mast is only unfaired because the first test firing melted it off.

[Ian Corrigible]

First posted those back in Jan in the Rotorheads around the world thread, and they've been doing the rounds since. This is the Maverick UAV system operated by the U.S. Army's R&D team. I have a 10MB video of the firings somewhere.

I/C

[topendtorque]

Originally Posted by 540DEGREE TorqueTurn

having burned up a few hrs chasing !!!!ters around some of the the most worst country to muster , these pictures are or where the ideal machine that we wanted. we all had visions of this machine and wanted it in our grasps


Mustering machine

We actually preferred two "pieces",

1. a FLIR directed gatling gun, so's those real recalcatant b*****ds would never get away.

2. a multiple grenade launcher that would drop brackets of a half dozen or so at about a 50 meter spacing, line abreast in rolling forwards salvos.

This would really move those old '!!!!ters and musceleys' out of the inpenetrable thirty foot high canegrass that was always under the tallest trees in the river sytems.