The A-160 Hummingbird, a vertical take-off-and-landing UAV, has been advised to fly up to 2,500 additional abyssal afar with 30 to 40 hour endurance. Its modular burden build can backpack up to 1,000 pounds. The A-160 offers range and ability aberrant in the history of helicopter UAV design. It will accommodate reconnaissance, surveillance, ambition acquisition, advice relay, attention re-supply, sensor supply and eventually attention beforehand capabilities.
The A160 Hummingbird, congenital by DARPA and Frontier Aviation of San Diego, will accomplishment a hingeless, adamant rotor abstraction operating at the optimum rotational acceleration to aftermath a vertical abandonment and landing (VTOL) unmanned air vehicle (UAV) with actual low deejay loading and rotor tip speeds consistent in an able low ability amble and top ability system. This different abstraction offers the abeyant for cogent increases in VTOL UAV ambit (more than 2,000 nm) and ability (24-48 hours). Detailed design, artifact and testing of this vehicle is getting conducted to authorize its performance, reliability, and maintainability.
The A160 abstraction is getting evaluated for surveillance and targeting, communications and abstracts relay, baleful and non-lethal weapons delivery, assured aggregation recovery, resupply of armament in the field, and appropriate operations missions in abutment of Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and added Agency needs. It is getting developed as a basic of the DARPA/Army Future Combat Systems (FCS) Program. In addition, this affairs will appraise appliance of the optimum acceleration rotor abstraction to added systems including abundant lift and angle rotor capabilities. The affairs will aswell beforehand awful able abundant ammunition engine technologies to added beforehand accepted ambit and ability projections as able-bodied as advance operational believability and acumen compatibility.
The A160 abstraction is getting evaluated for surveillance and targeting, communications and abstracts relay, baleful and non-lethal weapons delivery, assured aggregation recovery, resupply of armament in the field, and appropriate operations missions in abutment of Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and added Agency needs. It is getting developed as a basic of the DARPA/Army Future Combat Systems (FCS) Program. In addition, this affairs will appraise appliance of the optimum acceleration rotor abstraction to added systems including abundant lift and angle rotor capabilities. The affairs will aswell beforehand awful able abundant ammunition engine technologies to added beforehand accepted ambit and ability projections as able-bodied as advance operational believability and acumen compatibility.
