AVX helicopter projects

[Triton]

Artist's impression of AVX 300.

Source:
https://angel.co/avx-aircraft-company

 

[yasotay]

Did not think this warranted a new thread so I am putting some stuff here.
I was going through one of the piles of junk that manifest themselves in my office and found an "old" AVX brochure with a couple of interesting concepts. Interestingly the AVX team had argued that it was time for attack rotorcraft to go single pilot, with the advances in automation that are occuring.

 

[hesham]

Great find my dear Yasotay.

 

[Triton]

Very nice! Thank you for sharing, yasotay.

 

[Stargazer]

I absolutely LOVE the ATK! Thanks a lot for sharing these nice designs.

 

[Avimimus]

It would be interesting to get estimated dimensions for that single-seat attack platform...

 

[yasotay]

It would be interesting to get estimated dimensions for that single-seat attack platform...

I am guessing it is about MD500 or Ka 226 size... perhaps even smaller.

 

[Jemiba]

...Interestingly the AVX team had argued that it was time for attack rotorcraft to go single pilot, with the advances in automation that are occuring.

IIRC, Kamov was convincing the Russian armed forces of the same, but the now current Ka-50/52 versions seems
to be all twin seater.

 

[yasotay]

...Interestingly the AVX team had argued that it was time for attack rotorcraft to go single pilot, with the advances in automation that are occuring.

IIRC, Kamov was convincing the Russian armed forces of the same, but the now current Ka-50/52 versions seems
to be all twin seater.

Militaries tend, for the most part, to be very conservative organizations. It is hard to get them to change what they know (witness the demise of horse cavalry in the early twentieth century). There is still grand debate on the appropriate number of aircrew needed for any particular mission. Even with UAS, the number of operators remains a contested issue. I believe as aircrew become managers of air vehicles (like modern airliners), vice pilot, the arguments against single aircrew aircraft may change.

 

[Jemiba]

...I believe as aircrew become managers of air vehicles (like modern airliners), vice pilot, the arguments against single aircrew aircraft may change.

I would think, that necessary cost savings may be a better "argument" for such changes. :-\

 

[Triton]

Artist's impressions of AVX 300

Source:
Source:
https://angel.co/avx-aircraft-company

 

[hesham]

Nice find Triton.

 

[jsport]

View: https://youtu.be/xX93g0NUcxo?t=6

 

[yasotay]

Alas, neither of the rotorcraft in the picture will be a reality.

 

[Cjc]

Militaries tend, for the most part, to be very conservative organizations. It is hard to get them to change what they know (witness the demise of horse cavalry in the early twentieth century). There is still grand debate on the appropriate number of aircrew needed for any particular mission. Even with UAS, the number of operators remains a contested issue. I believe as aircrew become managers of air vehicles (like modern airliners), vice pilot, the arguments against single aircrew aircraft may change.

In this case it seems to be that the Russians found that even with all the automation asking a pilot to also use all the verius weapons was gust to much work. Wich makes one wonder wether all those plans to have weponds controllers also control drones might also a bridge to far, especially with the leval of automation drones have these days.