StratPost | Boeing's Experimental AH-6i light armed helo 

Interesting how the layout of the OH 6 has progressed over the years. Sure it's been stretched, tweekd, and manipulated but the MD and this AH-6i and others still resemble it's Grandfather the OH-6 who served in Vietnam.

If they dont call this the Angry Bird ill be disappointed.

Hughes Helicopters really made such very good helicopters. First this one derive from "Cayuse" who served in Nam. Then the "Apache" the deadliest Attack Helio in the world, now both rebadge as Boeing.

Excellent film footage and presentation.

The AH 6 is the just the coolest thing.

Pretty cool!

The OH6 had armour in the seat base and had seat flanges at the side which were armoured, as well as the front chicken plate.

Great helicopter.

Lovely lil thing.

neat bit of kit

I like the lambswool custom seats.

Bill lee An excellent instructor 👍

Love it!

Years after the -58 has been dropped.....the "Little Bird" still goes strong.....STILL in use by one of the best helicopter aviation units in the world. I guess Lady Bird Johnson got it wrong (though getting the contract awarded to Bell still got her a metric sh*t ton of profit).

Excellent base platform the 500D....anything extra - dual miniguns and 2.75 X 7 rocket is cool.....could use one in my neighborhood

can this be sold as an upgrade kit?

Its amazing how much power those little Rolls C series engines have to spare.. That's why you can turn a little MD500 series helo into God damn war machine with very little or no upgrades to the power plant!!!

Doors at the back with kevlar should be attached protecting tanks from ground fire as well as the doors at the cockpit.

nice one

how much, 10million each or lot more?

Did Hughes sell out to Boeing or what did I miss while I was away?

Yhea man !!!

the trigger time isn't long, but amount of weapons, no targets have a chance, one prickly bird, hope it has two greater horsepower gas turbo shaft motors as it used to weigh 3000 pounds and was very manoeuvrable ( had to ask google to spell that ) used to be called the egg. love it

Ya know in flight school we called Bill “Goober”

Is this the chopper they used in Vegas?

Looks good enough to scout for us army ah 64 e,scouts should be cheaper anyway

Blessed be the big noses...... It must have a stonking great engine to have 6 fully equipped guys on the planks and 2 air crew at 9000' pressure altitude

i flow this ah6i it is awsome A/C👍👍👍

what protection do pilots have with those windows open

This is a flying Bobcat (Small but packs a wallop)

Nice Helicopter, congratulations, in next vídeo please show better the tail rotor with 4 blades, this helicopter is a machine of dreams of the pilots.

Nice, I want one...would take care of my pesky neighbours quite nicely!...

Engine used these days?

So I'm confused. I thought the MD in the MD500 stood for McDonnell Douglass.

Wrap it up, I'll take it.

Could machine guns ever be synchronized to fire through the lift rotor the same way the old WW1 airplanes did ? Why would you want to ? Well something as nimble and quick as an AH-6 with upward firing MG's could conceivably get in underneath ,let's say a Hind? and cause it significant problems . The other reason I ask is that as good as the MH/AH -6 family of helicopters are ,and they are excellent machines , there is always room for improvement ,which is not easy with such a well designed machine as this but nonetheless here' goes :In "my" ideal AH-6 there would be only one crew member (for weight savings ) the pilot /gunner. The craft would have the NOTAR configuration and the landing skids would be hinged to allow them to be folded upwards while in flight such that when the pilot looked out either side window the curved forward portion would be horizontal to his/her view and the reason for that would be to allow about 100 degrees of traverse for the 25 mm Bushmaster chain gun mounted underneath the ship. Another approach at" improving " the AH-6 would be to utilize the basic guts of two AH-6's and amalgamate them into one twin rotor AH-12?Let me explain : I bought myself two plastic model kits (AH-6's of course ) and I also happened to have ,in the same scale , parts from a P-38 Lightning plastic model kit and so after some creative cutting ,snipping ,glueing etc I came up with something that looks like it might work ?It's more a VTOL Ground attack aircraft than helicopter ,provided of course machine guns could be snychronized to fire through the rotor(s) as well as a few other " maybe's " ? But anyhow ty for posting this video and keep em flying

I want to know how Boeing can manufacture md helicopters airframe and not have a conflict of interest can someone explain this to me two companies making the same aircraft

So im not clear on this why is boeing marketing a md helicopters airframe can anyone clear this up?

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Shut up and take my money

whats light about this bird

Australian air force is ditching the Eurocopter for this baby

This platform is ancient.

So this is an AH-6M with upgraded avionics?

Why not NOTAR?

Body same Md 500 series

Little Birds are definitely awesome folks, but this mock-up is purely for show. FYI to the casual observer. You'd never be able to carry all those provisions and the fuel that Robinson aux "Goliath" tank holds. MGW is the primary factor here dependent on location of operations. Added four blade T/R assy (does help the w&b challenges from the additions up front) and six blade M/R (more weight), the Wescam MX-15 and the added avionics in the nose, plus the thoughts in my head on just how much more power can be squeezed out of that Rolls Royce C-series engine?? srofficial06 - really?? The physics just aren't there.

It's Small...... But Terrible.... Good Against insurgency.

What about armour around the seats like the OH-6? And a fuel tank behind the seat! no thank you. Do these people not think they will be shot at?

big bee....go to thailand.,...

.....have it wrapped for me please.

Boeing is the best at making things that kill people, like choppers, Drones and 737 MAX's

Good old Boeing, Taking someone else's design and making it their own.

Just buy an MD 530G.

AH-6i.....big nose!

Gunship

cool heli but it does not have bullet proof doors to protect crew

Raztix

He didn't mention the woeful addiction that these come equipped with, as evidenced by that ginormous schnozz. It actually reminds me of someone wearing those fake glasses, nose and stache, attempting to feign or partially obscure appearance. We see you, MD. Boeing, tsk tsk tsk. You're off in some corner making out while the fixed wing sector is bringing that serious cheddar.

Didn't the Israeli IDF call this the Scorpion.

"For customers around the world" while the craft was painted Sand as fuck...well

MISSLE TECHNOLOGY MAKES THIS TOY OBSOLEITE, unless this is to be used against some primitive country. or maybe against the drug cartels, I mean look-up how many AH-64s we lost in afganistan, or how many uh-60s we lost in Iraq .STILL COOL TO LOOK AT . I could use one for feral pigs eradication.

Why does Boeing do stuff like put a fuel tank in the back seat and build gunships with all glass and no Armor on anything. Looks like they had the airliner crew build another battle platform! No thanks! Typical Boeing aircraft, can shoot it down with a BB gun!!