The Blackknight Transformer will be the first military aircraft in a long time that enlisted personnel will be allowed to fly. Its similar to the mall toys called quadrotors.
I wonder why that is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDay5OWDPn4
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a12968/the-real-life-transforming-army-helicopter-16883148/
The Black Knight has eight boxer-configuration four-cylinder gasoline engines with seven-foot, two-blade rotors that connect to the body of the helo via A-arms. The engines drive the rotors directly, with no conventional helicopter transmission, swash plate, or tail rotor. To remain stable, Black Knight uses differential thrust between opposing sets of prop-rotors controlled through Advanced Tactics' proprietary stability control software.
"It takes away the mechanical complexity of a helicopter and moves that complexity into the software," Jehangir says. "All the stability and control is done via high-speed computerized feedback."
The engine-rotor combos connect to a boxy fuselage on wheels, which houses a gasoline-powered automotive drivetrain complete with transmission, steering, and brakes. When the Black Knight transforms into drive mode, its engines and rotors fold up against the fuselage to yield an 8.5-foot-wide ground vehicle. Interior cargo volume is on par with the Army's UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. And, Jehangir says, "you could fit at least three or four of these under the rotor diameter of a Black Hawk."
>>28390558
>The Blackknight Transformer will be the first military aircraft in a long time that enlisted personnel will be allowed to fly.
You'll have to be a warrant officer at least, Same as helicopters.
The army has no reason to just start handing out expensive new tech to semi-literate idiots.
>>28390558
please tell me this is just an early concept vehicle prototype. because that thing looks ridiculous as it is now.
>>28390595
Its CASEVAC, it doesn't need to move quickly or have armor. It drives like a truck to and from secure sites back to whatever FOB it is based out of.
What powers the drive wheels? A 9th gas engine? A whole separate electric setup?
That thing has to be slow as fuck.
It looks like something I would make in Besiege.
how long until helitanks are a thing???
>>28390558
Would be a shame if something were to... happen... to that
>>28390558
>first military aircraft in a long time that enlisted personnel will be allowed to fly.
>a bubble bus that scream deathtrap
4 years of college sure makes a difference.
>>28392837
Well cosidering its meant to ferry casualties I doubt much will happen to it besides what illiterate grunts could do to it cuz
>GPS mode off
>Kiowa pilot enters cockpit
What happens?
>>28392967
It slowly smashes into a roof
>>28390564
>It takes away the mechanical complexity of a helicopter
>kept stable by 8 individual engines
>not complex
>>28390558
Looks unbelievably fragile. Not what I'd expect from an army vehicle at all
>>28390558
flying around in this thing is asking to die by some goat hearder with an AK
>>28392837
>using dead body as additional sandbag
orky/10
>>28390564
>9 gasoline engines
And the army doesn't even want gasoline
>Motorpool Monday
>Fuck dude lets just finish these 5988s fast and get the fuck rightout of here
>Blackknight: Descripancies, -------- 2016xxxx SPC. Snuffy, Joe
>few months later in the field
>BREAK BREAK BREAK REAL LIVE MEDEVAC
>>28393069
That's market speak for "its cheap as fuck". It is used after security is established. It means you aren't wasting UH-60s that could be used for more important things if you need a dead/dying/critical Talib or friendly out of there.
>>28393157
....What If
I just bought more blackhawks?
theyve been making them for a while, eventually they get cheaper, right?
>>28390558
Isn't this mostly going to be used to free up logistical tasks the airforce should otherwise take care of?
Moving supplies from and to locations when they are classed as non-critical situations.
>>28390558
So its like a big fucking box they attached trailer wheels to and put roters on top because look we can fly. This is fucking stupid. Looks like some guy just wanted a big quadcopter.
>>28393197
I thought we started paying other idiots to do that sorta thing
>>28393213
>>28390558
>we Banjo Kazooie Nuts and bolts now
>>28390558
>allowing enlisted to fly things
>allowing enlisted to fly a squad of men in a retarded gasoline powered car-copter with eight computer controlled engines
Ill take things that aren't going to end well for $800 alex...
>>28393194
That undercuts the mall toy above and doesn't require the time/efforts of a warrant or commissioned officer to pilot it? Not happening.
The Black Knight is great because its an unmanned gurney (when flying) that can be driven down the street by an 88M or 3531. And it costs WAAAAAy less.
>>28390558
i guess they had to come up with something to make the osprey appear safe...
>>28390558
Seems neat but I have no idea what they're trying to use it for.
>Casevac?
Judging from the size and description it holds just as many litter patients as an FLA but with decreased off road capability. Yes it can fly but what are you flying to? Not from a patrol to the fob because this thing looks like it'd crumple from a pothole let alone fire. FOB/COP to base/airfield? Maybe if you're close enough, but that isn't the case often times.
I feel like this would be good for ferrying supplies and personnel between adjacent FOBs and COPs. Anything else and you're limited by space, weight and range.
>>28393240
When it flies it is unmanned.
>>28393213
>>quadcopter
Has six engines...
>>28393197
This, it's a fucking flying jeep and it's cheap as shit.
What's not to love?
I wonder how long it'll be before civilians can buy them. My dick is diamonds.
>>28390558
>exposed motors and grease covered mechanics
>innadesert
>that sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDay5OWDPn4
Imagine you got your shit fucked up and you are laying on your back.. Your buddies telling you that you are going to be okay. And then you hear this mall toy buzzing above your head. Your buddies lay you inside along with a dead Talib and you feel the structure flex under your weight. Since its unmanned, you'll be the only one riding along.
So you get to hear that horrific whir for the next 10 minutes and hope to fuck the adversary doesn't notice your fucking loud Kneenex box hovering 100 feet off the ground.
>>28393240
It takes a college degree to break an aircraft but a high school degree to fix one :)))
>>28393131
You know shit's getting bad when dead bodies are more available than sand in a region known primarily for its abundance of sand.
Everyone shitting over this: It's proof of concept, a prototype, It'll get a lot prettier before production.
This was the proof of concept demonstrator for the harrier for fucks sake. LOOK AT IT.
>>28393326
my sides
>>28393247
what about the fuck ton of helicopters used in Vietnam?
>>28393380
Those required pilots. The Kleenex box doesn't.
>>28393397
it requires someone able to not fly it into something
>>28393415
No it doesn't. It requires a person when driven. Not when flying. It cannot perform complicated maneuvers and will be used purely for casualty evac.
>>28393429
so its completely autonomous in the air?
>>28390564
>octorotor ICE
Jesus christ how horrifying.
You need distributed propulsion to really benefit from the reduced mechanical complexity of multirotors.
Electric engines or GTFO
>>28393447
The production model is supposed to be.
>>28390558
>that enlisted personnel will be allowed to fly.
>>28390558
Looks like a shipping container on wheels that someone grafted drone parts to.
>>28393069
You could R&R all six of those engines in the time it takes to replace a rotor on a Chinook
>>28390558
That's Octillio Wells, Blowsand is in the background.
>>28393536
What a lovely false equivalency you have there, anon
Its a thing of beauty
This thing will never get adopted.
Blackhawks and Stryker Ambulances do the job better.
>>28393527
Flying /k/onex when.
>>28390558
good lord this things design looks Iranian tier
>>28393152
Underrated
>>28390558
>USSR made this back in the cold war
>/k/ laughed at it and say it will never work
>MURRICA make it in 2015
>/k/ is cumming all over it
the last of your credibility just went out the window /k/
>>28396062
>cold war era
>/k/
>internet
what are you smoking slavaboo?
>>28393264
that somehow makes it ok?
cant wait until im wounded and being ferried from the battlefield in this thing and it gets brought down by a sand nigger with a rusty enfield, then I have to crawl thru wreckage of the 1 thru 8 propellers that are still turning and the burning gasoline
nope
thanks for the offer sarge, I'll just WALK back to base
>>28393314
reminds me of this, only it's full of bees.
>>28393326
Underrated post
>>28393314
>An unmanned unit ferrying you back to base while you see the guys trapped in the other flying glass coffins dying from blood loss.
This won't result in PTSD at all.
>>28393314
It looks so awful, like someone's backyard project they made with shit from home depot
>>28393347
I don't see a difference, both are pieces of shit.
>>28393500
Immediately thought the same thing.
Also checked
>>28393264
I fingered my ex to this movie in the theater. Filthy whore
>>28396081
its a MEME you dip
>>28390558
I'll walk thank you very much.
