Boeing Unmanned AH-6 in French Navy Study for Rotary UAV
Boeing’s unmanned AH-6 is part of the trial programme being conducted by the French Navy to achieve an onboard UAV capability by 2011. Boeing is one member of a team that includes French state-owned company DCNS and Thales. The brief is to demonstrate ‘autonomous landing and take-off from land and sea.’
Boeing calls its platform the H-6U, which is a derivative of its existing AH-6i manned helicopter.
The French military is looking at how a rotary UAV such as the AH-6 could fit into both naval and army operations, said Fred Jerigan, AH-6 International Capture Team Leader, speaking at the
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