Showing posts with label A160. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A160. Show all posts
Saturday, January 15, 2011
US Navy buys unmanned helicopters to use in Afghanistan
Naval Air System Command has announced that the US Navy will to buy four unmanned cargo helicopters and send two of them to Afghanistan. Boeing will supply two A160T Hummingbirds and Lockheed-Martin two Kaman K-MAX helicopters. The helicopters will be in the US, then one type will be selected to deploy for six months.
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
A160 Hummingbird crashes during testing in Belize
US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and Boeing had to cut short the 45-day test flight programme of the YMQ-18A unmanned helicopter after one of the aircraft crashed in Belize on the 4th September. The unmanned helicopter is dubbed the A160T Hummingbird by manufacturer Boeing
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